Arizona has come up with a new method to help pay for Medicaid.
They want to penalize overweight Medicare recipients for failing to lose weight.
According to an article in the New York Times, Arizona's Health Care Cost Containment System has proposed charging smokers $50 a year and applying a similar fee to diabetes patients who do not follow their doctor's orders to lose weight, said Monica Coury, a spokeswoman for the state Medicaid agency. . . .
"Ms. Coury said the...
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Source: eOrthopod
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