States Are Walking Back Medicaid Coverage for GLP-1s

[MsGizmo]

I sat in one before. It was pretty nice🙂

🤣

They have big chairs.

 

[pavlovs]

Wish I could agree with you. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been to the grocery store and seen people piling junk food on the conveyor and then paying with EBT. It’s easy to waste when it’s not your money. Meanwhile, I am budgeting and buying the healthiest food I can afford because I’m overtaxed.

My cousin was one of those people throwing junk up on the conveyer belt. Someone heckled her when she paid with her card (years ago). She'd quit a high paying job to care her child who had leukemia. The heckler never knew that the junk she was buying was for what turned out to be her daughter's last birthday party. I'm glad people have been able to make their own choices regarding the foods they pick. For some people, that is the only control they have in their entire life, and for others, food may be the only joy they have in their lives.

 

[Jfrick11]

Wish I could agree with you. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been to the grocery store and seen people piling junk food on the conveyor and then paying with EBT. It’s easy to waste when it’s not your money. Meanwhile, I am budgeting and buying the healthiest food I can afford because I’m overtaxed.

I get that it can be frustrating to see purchases you wouldn’t make yourself, but a checkout snapshot doesn’t tell the whole story of someone’s life or budget. SNAP benefits are limited and often don’t stretch to cover a full month’s food, and the cheapest calories in our system are usually the least healthy—because subsidies and pricing favor processed food over fresh produce. Also, most people on assistance are working, paying taxes, or are children, seniors, or disabled. If we want to reduce both costs and poor health outcomes, reforming the food system and making healthy options affordable would go a lot further than assuming waste just because the payment card says EBT.

 

[GLP1Pharmacist]

GLPs for obesity are optional. I don’t want to pay for other people to be on these drugs when I’m already paying for myself to be on them.

But the same health plan will pay $571,000 for a bladder cancer drug that likely won't change outcome by months.

Regarding obesity, you are paying one way or another, when they enter the healthcare system, ER and other medical costs.