Topics overlapping: obesity dances with health insurance

There is much to chew on in An Insurer's New Approach to Diabetes, whether one is focused on my public policy issue obesity or Wendy's policy issue heath care/insurance.  

Both UnitedHealth and the C.D.C. want to expand on the success of a clinically proved program that has been offered by the Y. Based on evidence drawn from that program, people who are pre-diabetic and lose just 5 percent of their body weight can reduce their chances of developing the disease by almost 60 percent. The C.D.C. is also considering ways to encourage organizations beside the Y to develop similar programs.

What is most interesting to me is that this program's success is founded on a regular (weekly) routine of social gatherings as well as solo work. This is a stretch, but I want to connect the idea of this social routine with what it means to think the event.