>The accumulation of an excessive amount of body fat can cause type 2 diabetes, and the risk of type 2 diabetes increases linearly with an increase in body mass index. Accordingly, the worldwide increase in the prevalence of obesity has led to a concomitant increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes.
I'd love to see the math on how much the governement would save just handing this out for free to people vs. paying the lifetime of medical costs and burdens to the medicare system, etc. Seems this is $1000 a month without insurance now, I wonder how low it needs to go to be cost effective? It's really expensive to be obese, have diabetes, cancer, heart disease...
It's really expensive to be obese, have diabetes, cancer, heart disease...
From the insurance companies' perspective, what's really expensive is living too long, rather than dying early. My family has gold-plated health insurance by most standards, but it doesn't cover Ozempic.
You'd think they would hand out Ozempic like candy, but evidently they're afraid it will work too well.
It's also a $12k a year medication that potentially half their customers would want and qualify for under if obesity is qualifying alone. I can understand why they'd quake in fear at the cost. It's a real shame as these drugs will course correct the obesity epidemic and give millions of people decades of life they probably would not have gotten.
>The accumulation of an excessive amount of body fat can cause type 2 diabetes, and the risk of type 2 diabetes increases linearly with an increase in body mass index. Accordingly, the worldwide increase in the prevalence of obesity has led to a concomitant increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes.
I'd love to see the math on how much the governement would save just handing this out for free to people vs. paying the lifetime of medical costs and burdens to the medicare system, etc. Seems this is $1000 a month without insurance now, I wonder how low it needs to go to be cost effective? It's really expensive to be obese, have diabetes, cancer, heart disease...