The doctors do not want to do ELECTIVE operations on obese people because anesthesia and the operation itself is a lot more dangerous and touchy to get right. They don’t want a high risk patient to die for something that isn’t critical. I am sure they don’t want their surgery stats to go down unnecessarily, but almost none of them got into surgery to be indifferent if their surgical patients live or die.
The INSURANCE COMPANIES however and HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS may have financial reasons behind why they don’t want to see this occur.
The doctors primarily don’t want to have someone die for something that can be postponed so they can get a better chance of successfully surviving the operation.
What if an obese smoker wants a sex change operation?
Or an abortion?