{"id":40096,"date":"2013-09-16T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_calling_obesity_a_disease_may_make_it_easier_to_get_help\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:45:54","slug":"npr_calling_obesity_a_disease_may_make_it_easier_to_get_help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40096","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Calling Obesity A Disease May Make It Easier To Get Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Affordable Care Act, more insurance plans are expected to start covering the cost of obesity treatments, including counseling on diet and exercise as well as medications and surgery. These are treatments that most insurance companies don&#8217;t cover now.<\/p>\n<p>This move is a response to the increasing number of health advocates and medical groups that say obesity should be classified as a disease.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone thinks this is a good idea. But this summer, the American Medical Association determined that . They followed in the footsteps of the , a health advocacy group that called obesity a disease back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2013\/09\/16\/222064771\/calling-obesity-a-disease-may-make-it-easier-to-get-help\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Affordable Care Act, more insurance plans are expected to start covering the cost of obesity treatments, including counseling on diet and exercise as well as medications and surgery. These are treatments that most insurance companies don&#8217;t cover now.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40096\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,175,670,582,589,149,168,104,597,151,95,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-anthropology","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}