This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.. A few years ago, West Virginia, which has the highest obesity rate in the nation, quietly began a small and unusual pilot program that would touch hundreds of lives: It started covering obesity drugs for state employees— even as many other insurers balked at what they considered…
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