“Currently, only obesity metabolic surgery is covered. The scope needs to be expanded to include obesity treatments, etc.” “Obesity is a chronic disease like high blood pressure and diabetes. We need to apply health insurance benefits from a treatment perspective, not from a beauty perspective.”

Kim Gyeong-gon, vice president of the Korean Society of Obesity (Department of Family Medicine, Gachon University School of Medicine), made this claim at the policy symposium of the Korean Society of Obesity academic conference held at the Conrad Hotel in Seoul on the 7th. Vice Chairman Kim said that the number of obese patients in Korea has been increasing at a very rapid rate recently. Vice Chairman Kim s