Exposing Weight Loss Industry Legislation - Part 2

About this episode

The episode discusses the contents of Colorado's weight loss legislation and includes insights from a health care law attorney.

In Part 1 we looked at the problematic justification used by the Colorado Legislature to pass legislation following massive lobbying from the weight loss industry and their astroturf “patient advocacy” groups . Today I am going to talk about the actual contents of the law and am grateful for input from an attorney with many years’ experience in health care law and regulation who was willing to provide thoughts but did want to note that they are not admitted to practice in Colorado. Get full access to Weight and Healthcare at weightandhealthcare.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Ragen Chastain

Guest: an attorney

Topics covered

• weight loss industry
• legislation
• health care law
• lobbying
• patient advocacy

Keywords

• weight loss
• legislation
• Colorado
• health care
• lobbying
• advocacy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Colorado Legislature, weight loss industry, patient advocacy groups

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