I am hoping to get some information about the affordable health care act in regards to weight loss surgery, I am not familiar with this at all. Here is my story in a little nutshell. I was all scheduled approved and ready for surgery, one week before my surgery date I was denied and told I should have never been approved and it was their mistake. I have been researching MExico but do not have the funds saved up and honestly it would take me a few years to save up that much money (I am a mother of three and live paycheck to paycheck) I am been looking into financing but my credit is not great. I got approved with a medical financing company but need over $2000 still for a deposit, I can probably come up with $1000 in a reasonable amount of time and then borrow the other $1000 from my parents (if I can get them on board for going to Mexico) but I was just reading a little bit and was wondering if there is any chance that weight loss surgery would be covered when this affordable health care act kicked in. I live in Colorado, I saw there were already certain states that were going to be excluded but does anyone know about this or know how I can find out more information about this? THANKS!!

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/

http://obamacarefacts.com/affordablecareact-summary.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act

Maybe the info at those links will clear things up for those with questions. By the way, Alex posted a thread about this act and WLS in the News forum.

Edit: nope it wasn't Alex. I read about it here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/27/186310916/for-many-affordable-care-act-wont-cover-bariatric-surgery

So the answer is, you might be covered. Just like now.

As much as I am itching to get into the politics of this I won't.