Perverse results of changing the qualifying BMI from 35 to 45:
Obese people are gorging themselves in order to qualify for stomach-stapling surgery on the NHS.Overweight patients are being forced to pile on the pounds after trusts raised the level of obesity they must reach to get the treatment, a patients’ association claimed yesterday . . .
. . . Yesterday one man who has been denied treatment said: “Instead of surgery and rehabilitation my only option is McDonalds and ice cream.”
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“Overweight patients are being forced to pile on the pounds …”
Yeah, and that’s how they got fat in the first place. The damned government put a gun to their head forcing them to make gluttons of themselves.
I am postop gastric bypass and I see this on message boards all of the time. People say that they are almost heavy enough to qualify and think it is a good idea that they spend some time increasing their weight in order to qualify. It is ridiculous and tells a lot about how successful they will be after surgery. The people with this mindset are exactly the people who do not need surgery to lose weight, but need some sort of therapy for their messed-up view of life.
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