A Tale of Two Men

In Mexico, a man who is bed-ridden loses weight by dieting. In Florida, another is denied insurance coverage for weight-loss surgery.

41-year-old Manuel Uribe once weighed over 1200 pounds. He turned down offers of gastric bypass surgery, choosing instead to lose weight with the help of nutritionists and the Zone diet. The Associated Press is reporting that Manuel is now down to 840 pounds after a year of dieting. His target is 265 pounds.

Meanwhile in Florida, 500-pound Neal Pittard has been turned down by the parent company of both his insurance plan and a participating hospital for gastric bypass surgery that he desperately wants to have performed. Ironically, Florida Hospital Celebration is where Pittard's wife works, plus the facility markets weight-loss surgery as "the only proven consistently effective treatment for morbid obesity."

Weight-loss choices are as individual as the people who make them. Wouldn't it be better if there was equivalent support on the part of healthcare companies to match the desire of people struggling to achieve health?

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