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The healthcare system could provide better counseling and treatment to obese patients

By Hicbd
Sun Sep 30 2018 1:26 pm

"Still, despite the Task Force’s explicit recommendation of “intensive, multicomponent behavioral counseling” for higher-weight patients, the vast majority of insurance companies and state health care programs define this term to mean just a session or two."

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https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/doctors-begin-to-treat-obesity-030615#3
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2016/02/01/finally-more-real-obesity-treatment-doctors-arriving/#3b21483c109e

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Healthcare Public Health Obesity / Plus-size Child Obesity U.S. Healthcare Doctors U.S. Medicaid U.S. Public Health Body-Shaming U.S. Health Insurance Doctor-Patient Relationship Sizeism

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