Another sleeper about PREVENTION!!!!

The Huffington Post 4/21/2009
Dr. Agatston, it's a little late for this kind of thing. You don't understand what is going on. Or maybe you do. The HMOs are carrying on a huge campaign about "prevention" in order to disguise the fact that they want to defund services for people with chronic or disabling conditions and shift the money into their own pockets. Nobody is against "prevention." Nobody is against doing something about obesity and all obesity-related health problems. What we should be against is HMO greed and fraud. What we should be against is a revolting lobbying campaign to paint all sick people as irresponsible, to blame for their own health problems, and needing the heavy-handed ministrations of HMO gatekeepers who don't know squat about this problem. My state is full of this crap from the governor on down and we don't need any more. I would suggest that if you want to separate yourself from this scam, just tell us how much you want to raise your reimbursement rates for nutritional counseling and whether or not you will hire skilled nutritionists to do the counseling you haven't been taught to do. I know what that is because I have such a counselor. If it sounds reasonable, you'll get support. If not, you won't. It's a little late in the game for anything else, for drivel about "prevention," for HMO scams. Get with it or get lost.