Trump Administration Rejects Expanding Medicare, Medicaid Coverage of Obesity Drugs

[keangkong]

Wall Street Journal, Trump Administration Rejects Expanding Medicare, Medicaid Coverage of Obesity Drugs - Biden administration had proposed late last year coverage of the popular medicines for obesity (Apr. 4, 2025), no paywall article.

 

[exploitedworkerbee]

Of course Lilly is disappointed, they’re not going to have a giant customer that isn’t allowed to negotiate their extortionate pricing.

Here’s a thought: let Medicare negotiate with the drug companies and then decide whether to cover it if the drug companies think it’s worth it to them to have access to 70 million potential customers. A big portion of them would qualify for glp1s no doubt. I bet Medicare could get a screaming deal. So insanely stupid that theyre not allowed to negotiate because of influence of corporations on lawmakers, drives me up a wall.

 

[skunknuts]

Of course Lilly is disappointed, they’re not going to have a giant customer that isn’t allowed to negotiate their extortionate pricing.

Here’s a thought: let Medicare negotiate with the drug companies and then decide whether to cover it if the drug companies think it’s worth it to them to have access to 70 million potential customers. A big portion of them would qualify for glp1s no doubt. I bet Medicare could get a screaming deal. So insanely stupid that theyre not allowed to negotiate because of influence of corporations on lawmakers, drives me up a wall.

Sounds exactly like the last president's plan.

 

[keangkong]

Sounds exactly like the last president's plan.

Let's hope that Trump, who likes to talk deals, manages to speak to the drug companies and makes some sort of deal where the US government (or better yet, the government and private insurance) pay a large amount of money total for the drugs however the cost per patient turns out to be relatively low. While health insurance insurance and the federal will pay out much money if they do so, they'd likely see saving if the price becomes low enough. Then the drug companies which invested in these drugs are rewarded too so that there won't be any unwillingness of drug companies to invest in weight loss drugs.

 

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Of course Lilly is disappointed, they’re not going to have a giant customer that isn’t allowed to negotiate their extortionate pricing.

Here’s a thought: let Medicare negotiate with the drug companies and then decide whether to cover it if the drug companies think it’s worth it to them to have access to 70 million potential customers. A big portion of them would qualify for glp1s no doubt. I bet Medicare could get a screaming deal. So insanely stupid that theyre not allowed to negotiate because of influence of corporations on lawmakers, drives me up a wall.

Wasn't that a major part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

 

[keangkong]

Wasn't that a major part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

It may have been. Having witnessed my recent retirement fund losses I'm not exactly a Trump defender right now.

Still it's possible he'll do something right as to GLP-1 drugs.

 

[G Vice]

Short term pain. Always doom and gloom on main stream media. We no longer watch ABC, CBS, or NBC. They go out of their way to make stories negative.