The study, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery, tracked the expenses of nearly 30,000 Americans who got one of two forms of bariatric surgery, and compared their long-term health costs with those of similar patients who were obese but did not go under the knife to lose weight. Even when the initial $20,000-$25,000 cost of the procedure was taken out of the equation, the ongoing expenses for the patients who had surgery were roughly the same as for those who did not.Not to mention, 20% of them get worse.
This is the biggest scam in medicine. Surgically removing patient's bank accounts. Doctors are going to be fixing up the damage done to those people for the rest of their lives.
