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.

 

[AndyPanda]

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.

I think there is much more middle ground than the media portrays on the big issues. I for one am tired of the extremes on each side and while I might not agree with someone, I will gladly have constructive discourse them.

The biggest two mistakes people make is
1.) Thinking ANY politician cares about them. 2.) Thinking they are more important than they really are. Especially all the screamers out there. Just because you say something louder, doesn’t make it any more correct.

As I get older, I’m either buying into conspiracies more, OR I realize that many people in positions of power prosper through the division of the working class. Like the old Latin maxim “divide et impara.”

 

[skunknuts]

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

Lol, sure, sure.

 

[Blitziod]

Medicaid generally covers weight loss surgery. So there is at least that. That’s better than my health insurance.

Not covering GLP1 s is going to cost way more down the road. Esp when they become generic. Sema isn’t that far from being off patent.

I think GLP1 maybe back doored into coverage. They are being looked at as a cure for sleep apnea for example. A disorder most overweight people have. Same with type 2 diabetes.

 

[Blitziod]

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.

Or just fast track a drug for a consortium of generic providers.