It is simple, if your insurance will cover gastric bypass surgery or other obesity related procedures they better cover a personal trainer and gym membership to boot. As a matter of fact some insurances do cover a personal trainer (very few). Call your insurance company and ask. If insurance companies don’t get on board, Congress should draft legislation requiring they provide one if they provide the other.
Some people cannot afford the time and money to go to the gym and their insurance tells them they have one choice or die, surgery. Now let’s think about this in context. The cost of gastric bypass surgery can reach $30,000. That is the value of a really nice car, a down-payment on a house or the cost to send one of your kids to a local college. Your insurance company will pay this, with possibly drastic results such as gaining the weight back, blood clots in your legs, a leak of one of the staple lines in the stomach to name a few of the short-term complications. View full article »
What if we lived in a world where being unemployed meant you couldn’t get a job? Literally, if you were unemployed, employers in this fictitious world threw away your application. Believe it or not, this is the current trend in our glorious United States of America. When I found out about this I almost vomited. I am proud of this country. I’m about a patriotic as it gets. Hell, I even used to own nine guns, which seems to be a criteria for patriotism these days. After the stomach pains subsided, stage two slipped in. This is where I suddenly wanted to unsheath a sword and scream freedom down a grass covered hill. I was and am pissed. The American Dream is dying and it serously needs defribullator.
Well you can. First, most people can call their credit card company and request their card be denied if they exceeded their limit.
