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AL charges state employees fees for health problems

August 26, 2008 — 1:20pm ET | By Anne Zieger
The Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board has announced that it will go forward with a plan requiring state employees who are obese or have other health problems to make progress on those issues... Read more...

Trend: Patients going to Mexico to get bariatric surgery

July 23, 2008 — 10:33am ET | By Anne Zieger
Frustrated by limits imposed by U.S. health plans--which typically require patients to have a BMI of 40--patients are increasingly going to Mexico to get bariatric surgeries done. They're doing this... Read more...