 Beginning next year, more Louisianans will be eligible for insurance coverage for bariatric surgery as commercial insurance will be required to cover the weight loss surgery. Medicaid currently covers the surgery and the insurance that state workers have also pay for it. Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow says this is an important new law when you consider the state's obesity rate is around 40%. We look at really improving the quality of life of individuals as well as better impacting the quality of Louisiana's life.