Comments on: Paying for your obesity http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/paying-for-your-obesity.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/paying-for-your-obesity.html#comment-78524 Anonymous Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/paying-for-your-obesity.html#comment-78524 Thanks, Mike, for standing up to Kevin's usual fat-bashing. Kev, I notice none of the vicious anti-fat docs responded to your blog about fat being contagious. Hopefully they've gone back to whatever rock they crawled out from under. Thanks, Mike, for standing up to Kevin’s usual fat-bashing. Kev, I notice none of the vicious anti-fat docs responded to your blog about fat being contagious. Hopefully they’ve gone back to whatever rock they crawled out from under.

]]> By: Mikehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/paying-for-your-obesity.html#comment-78489 Mike Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/paying-for-your-obesity.html#comment-78489 This smacks of the same P4P crap that doctors are lambasting.<br/><br/>We know that many smokers never have bad outcomes. So that means that they all MUST stop smoking? And what if a patient tries but still cant get the vague "healthy" weight the insurer demands? This seems anti American to me. As much as I advise patients against obesity, if they can't exercise enough or make unhealthy eating choices because they are working their ass off all day to feed their family, then what? We punish them with even higher insurance premiums they can't afford? So then they just get lost to follow up, until they use the emergency room? <br/><br/>Completely misguided. This smacks of the same P4P crap that doctors are lambasting.

We know that many smokers never have bad outcomes. So that means that they all MUST stop smoking? And what if a patient tries but still cant get the vague “healthy” weight the insurer demands? This seems anti American to me. As much as I advise patients against obesity, if they can’t exercise enough or make unhealthy eating choices because they are working their ass off all day to feed their family, then what? We punish them with even higher insurance premiums they can’t afford? So then they just get lost to follow up, until they use the emergency room?

Completely misguided.

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