The author of the initiative, Modesta Genesio di Stabia (Neighborhood Independent), told the press that follows the spirit of the National Obesity Act, passed in 2008, and focuses specifically the lack of actual coverage of this disease by the administration Provincial Health Insurance (Apross).
warned that the gap remains despite the “continued growth in the numbers of incidence of this disease in Argentina”s population,” recalling that covers Apross currently only the cost of bariatric surgery, but without providing outpatient treatment or inpatient weight reduction by natural means.
“It is assumed that the least invasive to more invasive precedes as a treatment strategy, “argued the legislator in an attempt to demonstrate the” vacuum “that e1000xists in the current model of coverage of social work staff in failing to exhaust state natural methods of weight reduction prior to surgery.
pointed out that the costs of coverage for treatment of obesity through bariatric surgery, without exhausting the previous instances via outpatient or hospitalization, “are much higher than those proposed” in the project.
Finally, he stressed in this connection that the coverage proposal “will allow many cases currently operated can be treated with cheaper and less risky” .- (Telam) VMP-27-da cvr /04/2010 20:27