Maine state senator delivers bill demanding better obesity care

The Maine state senator, Nate Libby, has recently presented a bill committed to reducing the obesity and chronic disease rate in Maine by providing better obesity care. By making nutritional therapies and obesity medications more affordable, Senator Libby is hoping to make the people of Maine healthier, whilst also saving money on treatments that they might have needed in the future.

The aim is to provide better access to evidence-based obesity care whilst also reducing the prices of a range of therapies available to the obese population of Maine. Whilst in many other US states costs for treating the complications of obesity are rising rapidly, it is hoped that Maine could act as a pioneer in the way it develops its obesity program, and that other states would soon follow in its footsteps.