Classification of human behavior exists to better help our understanding. However, with the state of the health insurance industry today, citizens have NEVER been more penalized for suffering from diseases attributable to genetics, bad luck or bad choices. It's against a backdrop of insurers asking you whether you've been treated for addiction in the past 5 years as an indicator used to charge you higher insurance premiums that we read new scientific concepts such as the eating as addiction concepts put forth by Dr. Roger Gould, a board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author.
In the Diet-to-Go/Diet and Nutrition blog located at http://www.DietToGo.com/blog,
readers can read about the theory of when overeating becomes addiction. At the end of the posting, Dr. Gould promotes his own program for starting to address the addiction. So what will this mean for your insurance?
Given the state of purchasing and maintaining health insurance, the last thing anyone needs is to be labeled an addict of any kind. Food addiction status as a medical condition can only be used to further separate the overweight and use their weight as a reason to charge more money in insurance premiums.
So read through the blog post, it's interesting, but for us, classification of a new behavior as an addiction is just another excuse for insurers to charge more.
