Eating disorder treatments paid for by insurance?

Lawmakers working on a bill for insurance to pay for eating disorders!

It is certainly high time that they consider this payment as many, many teens, etc. suffer from this disorder and they are breaking their parent's and/or caregiver's pocketbook in trying to find the cure. Some caregivers/parents are opting for counseling due to pocketbook issues; however, counseling alone is not the full cure for the eating disorder diagnosis. A great degree of the diagnosis is medically related -- and becomes a seriously medical condition, if left untreated.

Insurance companies, it would seem, would want to nip the disorder in the bud (so-to-speak) at the earliest point of intervention to avoid the extremely high costs of treating the eating disorders after the fact. Not a lot of people, and insurance companies, think the preventative medicine route; but, more should because it reduces the high costs of medical care in the end.

Eating disorders don't affect just teens though -- it hits all spectrums of life -- and can start to trigger some more serious diseases as well.

Hopefully, when it comes to reforming the health care in Texas, they will put their thinking caps on and consider preventative medicine as well as part of the big picture solution. In the meantime, it would be a huge step for insurance companies to consider paying for the eating disorders care and treatment!