FDA Okays Wider Use of Gastric Banding, and Other News
37 million potential surgeries. The FDA has sanctioned use of gastric banding for weight-loss surgery in a wider range of patients.
Study: Medicare’s (risk adjusted) premiums encourage health plans to attract the healthy and avoid the sick. Small changes could help.
New Hampshire Governor to hospitals: stop building.
The Internal Revenue Service says it will need 1,054 new auditors and staffers just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama’s health care reforms. Total cost to taxpayers will be more than $359 million in fiscal 2012.
It’s amazing how much the IRS is costing taxpayers. No pun intended.
Gastric banding isn’t 100% effective. It’s hard for me to understand, but some people just lack the sensitive nerves in their stomachs that signal to the brain the sensation of being sated after a meal. I watched a documentary that profiled people suffering from obesity and explained they needed to also undergo counseling to achieve the desired results.
I wonder what the average person from Rwanda or Haiti thinks about the story on gastric binding.
There is a billboard near my office that advertises lap band for $8,900. I’m surprised more people don’t try it. If I had faced a life-long battle of the bulge and was losing (no pun intended), I’d be the first in line to inquire about something costing less than $9,000 that might help me live longer.
Pretty soon a tummy tuck is going to be seen as a basic human right.
I would say they are going to need an IRS agent on every city block.
How many of those tummy tucks do you think will be paid for by Medicaid?