Taxpayer-funded weight loss surgery not so bad for the public purse

By Natasha Boddy
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:08pm, first published August 18 2014 - 6:31pm

Publicly funding bariatric surgery for obese people can make economic sense, according to research done at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

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