Publicly Funded Bariatric Surgery

Last night I half watched a news clip about Bariatric Surgery and the push for this procedure to become publicly funded. With a little research today I found that the ACT has already begun paying for bariatric weight-loss surgery, making taxpayer-funded operations available in the ACT for the first time. Taxpayer-funded weight-loss surgery has been considered in the territory for 12 years, while gastric banding and sleeves have been available in public hospitals in South Australia and Victoria.

According to the head of chronic disease epidemiology at the Australian National University, Emily Banks: ”Bariatric surgery is a very effective treatment for …read more