“Outrageously” priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care
“Outrageously” priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care
Prices would need to be dramatically slashed to avoid increasing the national deficit.
US health care is already morally bankrupt anyway.
Might as well stop paying for fat people's health care all together. They already know what the problem is.
Ahh. Another fat phobic unempathetic asshole. Would be hilarious if you got punched in the face and when you went to the hospital they refused to treat you because obviously the solution would've been for you to not be an asshole.
Novo nordisk shifted their production from insulin to ozempic because the price was capped on insulin, but not on weight loss drugs. Now there is a shortage of both: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/5/2/what-is-behind-the-insulin-shortage-in-the-us
The savings from not having to pay treatment costs for as many arthritis, heart disease, stroke, fatty liver, and diabetes cases should balance the costs.
Also most insurance companies refuse to cover semaglutide, so I don’t see this bankrupting anyone but the patients who pay out of pocket.
That's a bold assumption. While prevention may be the right thing to do for patients' sake, it rarely saves money. Last time I checked, very few preventive measures save money except for vaccines in children and young adults. Often, if we live longer , we develop more expensive long term diseases.
Good, burn the fecker down and start over.
Weightloss drugs should not be covered. Vegetables should be subsidized.
Why can we, the literal richest country on Earth, not do both? Also, MOST VEGETABLES are already pretty heavily subsidized - crop subsidies make up a substantial portion of a lot of farmer's earnings.