In theory, could it be possible to just switch over to an insurance that will pay for the sleeve, get the surgery, then switch back to your normal insurance? Would there be consequences for this?Like I said i'm not too insurance savvy.

Most insurances that are available to individuals have a waiting period of 12-18months for procedures like WLS if they don't exclude them completely.

This is done to keep people from buying a policy, paying 1 or 2 months @ $600-700/mo getting a $10,000+ surgery then canceling. Thus leaving the insurance company losing $9,000

I never thought about it, but I'm pretty sure the insurances probably have already figured that one out and blocked it somehow =p