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
penewbie
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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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That’s the RFK Jr. position.
I don’t know why people are taking medical advice from a Kennedy. Last I checked, the men in that family all die young. Dude is jacked, but he always looks like he has to take a 10 pound crap. That is one of the most corrupt families in the world.
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I wouldn't take medical advice from someone like him, who doesn't know what he's talking about. However, the health problems of the Kennedy men seem to be related to being shot or getting into airplane crashes. Bad medical advice has nothing to do with it.
That lead poisoning will get you every time.
Trump administration halts Biden proposal to let Medicare, Medicaid cover anti-obesity drugs
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not explain why it was not finalizing the proposal, which the Biden administration unveiled in November.
abc7chicago.com
It's literally his administration overturning what the previous administration ruled. No GLPs, but plenty of koolaid for the crew.
It’s “literally” something that has been this way for several administrations. Why does everything have to be political with you people. The government shouldn’t pay for everything, for everyone.
They only rose to prominence in the Biden administration and the Biden administration started the process to get them covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
This is like saying that we shouldn't cover any new thing because it hadn't been covered before. It's not a logical argument and that has nothing to do with politics.
As for if the government shouldn't pay for everything for everyone, sure. But let's do an ROI study - and I'd gamble on medicare and medicaid providing glp-1s would reduce the overall cost burden for health on taxpayers. Because being fat is expensive as fuck to the medical system.
zpped
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This wasn't a real concern before the last administration. Then they tried to do something about it. You're just wrong about this one. Whether it should or shouldn't happen is a completely different point and you're trying to move the goalposts.
I get what you are saying, but no military aged person should be on Medicaid long enough for GLP-1s to work and improve other areas of their health.
