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.
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.