The AOA submits comments, statements, and
petitions to several government agencies to emphasize the need to
address the health, social and economic impact of obesity.
The
following is a list of submissions the AOA has made:
Year 2002
Year 2001
July
- Coordinate coalition letter to the Surgeon General calling for definitive steps in National Call to Action on overweight and obesity.
May
- Statement Concerning Appropriations for the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate: The Obesity Research and Prevention Budget
- Action alert issued in support of Senator Patrick Leahy bill on vending machines in schools and setting regulations to prohibit the sale of food of minimal nutritional value.
March to July
- Lobby U.S. Senate and House members on Medicare pharmaceutical benefit legislation to include anti-obesity agents.
February
- Clarification of tax deduction for obesity treatments with the Internal Revenue Service.
January
- Letters regarding obesity to key members of new U.S. President¹s Administration and Members of Congress and to the Surgeon General on the National Call to Action on overweight and obesity.
Year 2000
June
- Comments to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means: Inclusion of Obesity Treatment in the Medicare Drug Benefit Legislation
May
- Letter to President Clinton on making obesity drugs available through Medicare
April
- Statement regarding Obesity Research and the National Institutes of Health before the Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate: Developing a Comprehensive Obesity Research Plan
March
- Statement before the Executive Committee Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee, Health Care Financing Administration: Making Advances in Medical Technology Available to Persons with Obesity
- Evidence to Allow Tax Deduction for Obesity Treatment. Document submitted to the Internal Revenue Service to establish that obesity is a disease and that weight loss by an obese person prevents the onset of disease.
Year 1999
December
- Comments Regarding the National Nutrition Summit. Summit Committee, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Prioritization of Programs and Policies to Reverse the Obesity Epidemic
April
- Statement Concerning Appropriations for the National Institutes of Health before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Resources, Education and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives: Maximizing Obesity Research Opportunities and Budget
- Letter to Surgeon General Satcher for inclusion of obesity as a separate chapter in Healthy People 2010
April
- Comments to the Office on Women’s Health, Department of Health and Human Services: Inclusion of Obesity in "Women Living Long, Living Well," a document designed to promote women’s health, research and education
- Comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: Reshaping the Weight Message in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Year 1998
December
November
August
July
May
April
March
February
Year 1997
October
- Statement
to the Federal Trade Commission: Standards for Providers of
Weight Loss Therapies
May
- Statement
to the Endocrinologic and Matabolic Drugs Advisory Committee, Food and Drug Administration: Development of Xenical Drug to Treat Obesity
