{"id":4884,"date":"2008-10-05T01:21:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T08:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/05\/obama-health-care-and-fat\/"},"modified":"2008-10-05T01:21:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T08:41:30","slug":"obama-health-care-and-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4884","title":{"rendered":"Obama Health Care and Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=10&#038;year=2008&#038;base_name=obama_on_health_care\">big health care speech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Under my plan, we\u2019ll make sure insurance companies cover evidence-based, preventive care services \u2013 weight loss programs, smoking-cessation programs, and other efforts to help people avoid costly, debilitating health problems in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Weight loss programs&#8221; and &#8220;evidence-based&#8230; services&#8221; are mutually exclusive sets. There is no weight loss program which has been shown to bring about substantial, long-term weight loss in a peer-reviewed study.<\/p>\n<p>A <em>real <\/em>evidence-based approach would lead to the conclusion that &#8220;weight loss programs&#8221; are useless, and in some cases can even do great harm.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I think Obama&#8217;s health plan might be beneficial to fat people on the whole, because it includes &#8220;outlawing insurance company discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions.&#8221; If being fat is considered a &#8220;pre-existing condition,&#8221; then this would do an enormous service to fat people who are typically turned down by insurance companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Obama&#8217;s big health care speech: Under my plan, we\u2019ll make sure insurance companies cover evidence-based, preventive care services \u2013 weight loss programs, smoking-cessation programs, and other efforts to help people avoid costly, debilitating health problems in the first place. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4884\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}