Axios: Trump admin won't let Medicare cover anti-obesity drugs

[fetefille]

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

Please don’t forget cabbage soup

 

[indolent]

Please don’t forget cabbage soup

I once bought a used book (1970s?) called The Sexy Pineapple Diet because it was a sexy used book.

I still gained weight in the long run, though. But probably only because I didn't chew each bite 10,000 times before swallowing.

 

[bbrewer]

Too bad the federal government couldn't just buy one of the companies with a decently promising glp in the pipeline but no money for trials. Fast track it under emergency authorization like the COVID vaccine. Move it directly to generic and cover it with Medicaid/Medicare. Might make people live too long drawing social security though.

 

[Morbius]

To what degree you must deserve the support society gives you is an ethical divide like abortion or gun control. There are two main camps and they will never agree.

 

[Ted R]

Too bad the federal government couldn't just buy one of the companies with a decently promising glp in the pipeline but no money for trials. Fast track it under emergency authorization like the COVID vaccine. Move it directly to generic and cover it with Medicaid/Medicare. Might make people live too long drawing social security though.

Don't think I'll be taking anything that the government is involved in or promotes.

 

[bbrewer]

Don't think I'll be taking anything that the government is involved in or promotes.

I hear ya, gotta draw the line somewhere. I'll stick with mail order from a super hot Chinese model I met on an anonymous discord server that only accepts crypto.