Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices

Re:Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospit... by aquaticsunset on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @08:56PM (#32745129)

Thank you for bringing this up. The medical community's intense obsession with people's size and shape over their health causes a lot of misleading conclusions and misguided efforts.

If you walk into the doctor's office underweight and concerned about an issue you're having, the doctor doesn't put you on a strict fettuccine Alfredo and hamburger diet before treating you.

If you're overweight and concerned about an issue, you're far more likely to be told to lose weight and ignored.

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Re:Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospit... by Eleison23 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @07:10AM (#32749057)

Whether or not you're overweight, when you come in they'll take your vitals and run some standard tests until they find something they can treat and medicate for the rest of your life.

You'll be tested for thyroid dysfunction, for diabetes, for hypertension, for all sorts of stuff that won't be on your radar until a blood test turns up "abnormal" results once. Then you'll get pills, all the pills you care to eat and remember, there is no road map for getting off those pills, you'll just get larger doses and more frequent as your problems worsen (because you're not addressing root causes, just being medicated for "treatable" issues which correspond to existing pharmaceuticals.)

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