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.

 

[exploitedworkerbee]

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.

Honest, good faith question for you: who do you believe writes the checks for increased tariff costs, who do those checks get written to, and where do you believe the money comes from?

I’m genuinely curious how those key details on which the entire plan turns are understood by folks like you who have selected to participate only in the right’s information ecosystem (that isn’t a jab, the left has one too).

 

[ghreid]

T's team admits that short term is about 7-8 years at the earilest. Can many americans last that "short term pain" for that long? Thailand looking better every day.

 

[indolent]

increased tariff costs

The issue is much more easily understood if we use the term new taxes, which is what they are. The "tariffs" part is just a technical mechanism.