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We have blogged in the past about insurance covering bariatric surgery. Well, in Canada, it seems some prominent hospitals are willing to pay for certain instances of bariatric weight-loss surgery — 100 of them — and they are calling on the government to pay for more.
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Health officials agreed to pay for the procedure after Calgary surgeons performed 25 lap-band surgeries as part of a pilot project that ended in early January. On average, the patients in the pilot project lost 55 pounds over an eight-month period and some diabetic patients were able to come off their medication.
