Bill requiring Colorado insurers to cover weight loss drugs clears first hurdle despite analysis showing significant costs

Dr. Jaime Moore (assistant professor, Section of Nutrition, CU School of Medicine) with Children's Hospital Colorado disagreed.

"The heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure and dialysis, amputations, infections, these things that really represent significant cost savings especially if we intervene earlier. For adolescent girls who develop Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, PCOS is strongly linked to obesity and is the number one cause of infertility in the world. We would be preventing the cost of invitro fertilization."