Axios: Trump admin won't let Medicare cover anti-obesity drugs
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They neither blame nor applaud. They simply state that the Biden administration had made a proposal for change, and that the Trump administration scrapped it.
Not weighing in here on politics, or my feelings about Musk, but a while back Musk said that he thought that if GLP-1 class drugs were made cheap and affordable enough for any American to take them that needs them, it would drastically cut health care costs and make us a healthier nation. I totally agree with this and would wager a 75% decline in overall healthcare costs with cheap GLPs. For one drug to be able to tackle obesity, diabetes and all the cascading comorbidities that come along with that like heart disease, strokes, vascular disease, kidney disease etc, truly makes it incredible. I’m sure any politician who tried to do this would be under a lot of pressure to not do so by the rest of big pharma and the hospitals
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The long standing prohibition was in a time period where weight loss drugs were neither safe nor efficacious.
Time's changed, old man.
I thought it was more that it was considered merely a cosmetic treatment, not medical.
Not to mention easily avoidable through diet & exercise & lifestyle change & willpower & chewing each mouthful 100 times & ordering the dietetic cottage cheese platter
Yeah, Indo, get up off that office chair and start jogging in place!
As you can see, I'm doing a stationary sit-up/feet-up, and barely touching the stack of jumbo pancakes. Yet.
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