Magical Advocacy HAWMC 5

Greetings from the Anchorage airport. Evidently I am dressed for where I'm going. In other words, I am freezing!
Given we're boarding in 20 minutes, I'm under extra motivation (which doesn't mean extra under motivated!) to be concise! (And not do what I just did playing with words.) (And not explicate what I shouldn't have just done.) (Etc.)

Today’s Prompt:

• “If I could do anything as a Health Activist…” Think big today! Money/ time/ physical limitations are no longer an issue. What is your biggest goal that is now possible?

Given what I said yesterday, this one's easy for me. I would whup insurance companies' butts for kicking people out of eating disorder treatment long before they're ready to leave. I would especially kick their butts for correlating weight gained, and weight at start, with level of 'recovery' and readiness not to be in the safe container, which is also a volatile crucible, of a treatment center. My heart has been broken a few times seeing people make huge breakthroughs in self-understanding that might lead to their healing, only to be kicked out by insurance at no notice at all, or people in absolute desperation being unable to go into treatment in the first place because their weight "isn't low enough" (do you know how devastating it is to someone with an eating disorder to be told that?) -- especially when the person is suffering from bulimia, which doesn't even include BMI amongst its diagnostics. Everyone in the treatment context is constantly lamenting the state of play with insurance and how it disrupts the treatment process, which ideally should take six months; more if the person is very physically sick at the beginning.
It's true that ED treatment is unbelievably expensive (quoted at $1000 per day) but that includes exorbitant charge for a single tylenol, for example, and that's not what it costs the insurance companies. The latter also clearly often have a poor understanding of the condition--especially when the sufferer is outside of the stereotypical ED population (another big myth). I would effect their education as well as whup their butts for all the anguish caused.

I probably should add that I would magically improve the efficacy of ED treatment centers. In my experience, recovery rate is catastrophically low. But I'm not sure I would add that just simply. I have so many thoughts about this that I think I really need to share, but we're about to board so I'll stop there. 24 hours of travel ahead; I'll do my best to keep up with HAWMC.