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I have often wondered about that too. Thanks Kindle. I will add one thought, I had a band and was self pay ($16,00.00 Canadian private clinic)

I think I was very motivated, only lost about half excess and started gaining. MMMMM I am at 3.5 years and it is a bit harder now but my sleeve reminds me to eat small and healthy. Big improvement .
You're right, WLS is much too complex to place everyone in "category A" or category B". Just curious if there would be any sort of trend in the overall outcome when comparing different circumstance (self pay vs insurance; US vs CANADA vs MEXICO vs EUROPE, first surgery vs revision, etc). Maybe they could throw some bariatric questions on the next census questionnaire