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Obesity is a burgeoning challenge for employer health plans. It's been around for decades but mainly ignored by insurers and health plans largely due to a lack of effective treatments and the societal stigma that it's the patient's fault. The medical community didn't even declare obesity as a disease until 2013 so as a society we are just figuring out that it is indeed a medical condition. Stigma is a powerful thing, but math and science must win the day. We must move from blame to biology in order to make real progress.
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