Posted on 05/22/2024 11:46:24 AM PDT by DallasBiff
State and local governments across the US are grappling with a growing problem: Expensive drugs to treat diabetes and obesity are threatening to drain their health-care budgets.
State health plans and Medicaid offices are seeing eye-popping bills for Novo Nordisk A/S’s Ozempic, its sister drug Wegovy and similar medications known as GLP-1s. They’re a breakthrough for treating two of the most complex chronic health conditions. But with list prices stretching above $1,000 a month, the costs threaten to empty government coffers.
“It’s not sustainable,” North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell, who oversees state workers’ health insurance, lamented at a recent board meeting. “It’ll sink the plan.”
He isn’t the only official warning about the exploding costs. Connecticut imposed new hurdles for state employees seeking weight-loss treatment in July, after spending on the drugs rose 50% annually since 2020. Virginia tightened criteria for Medicaid enrollees seeking GLP-1s to treat obesity in June. An official in Delaware warned of a surge in Medicaid claims for the drugs since March and said the state may need to implement cost controls.
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Heck I lost 50 lbs. by quitting sugar carbonated soft drinks, also non-sugar carbonated soft drinks, just stuck with water and juice.
Maybe it’s the crap they are putting in their piehole that’s making them FAT...
Demolishing Lies On Low Carb Eating *
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231343
They had no problem doling out millions for the fake vaccines................
Thanks for posting that link.
It’s dead-on accurate.
If it is effective Medicare shouldn’t approve it otherwise they will go bankrupt sooner.
Bkmk
So I got to pay for some fatty to get a shot instead of them buying a gym membership?
That’s fair.
Nah, it can’t be so easy.
It’s got to be hard and take all kinds of pharma pocket lining expensive meds to let people continue their destructive lifestyles.
I thought being fat was all the rage now?
I know, I can't keep up either. Weren't we celebrating Lizzo's fat?
Low carbs is the best way to lose weight hands down. I lost 50lbs. That was 5 years ago and am still down. The best is you can cheat and just go back to low carbs without missing a beat.
That’s excellent. Thank you for the link.
““It’s not sustainable,” North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell, who oversees state workers’ health insurance, lamented at a recent board meeting. “It’ll sink the plan.””
Tell them it’s for Ukrainians, moslems and Mexicans.
I don’t follow it like I should, because, well I really like chocolate and ice cream as well as red wine. I have been pereptually overweight 10 pounds since I met my wife 20 years ago this week. She cooks and makes our food daily, left by myself, I just won’t eat and can easily lose the 10 pounds extra in 2 weeks if she wasn’t around.
So many fallacies. What pure garbage - the first major one being an attempt to suggest that 100% whole wheat bread doesn’t contain fiber naturally, but it is somehow artificially added back.
Also seems to be lacking a basic knowledge of ATP generation via glucose.
Many other points that get tiresome to address.
I just fall back on my my main response whenever someone starts getting all preachy about carbs to me - I just say, “look at me, look at you”, and that usually shuts them right up.
My wife called me fat. That made me lose weight.
Aside from a pepsi or coke after lunch during high school, for me soft drinks had been the exception, until I got married at 24. I was only drinking soda pop when out somewhere. Marriage kept me home, so it became something I only drank when at a special gathering.
Energy drinks?.... never had one. But I know people that are addicted to them.
Most heavy people simply don’t have physically demanding jobs, yet continue to eat and drink like they do.
**My wife called me fat. That made me lose weight.**
The fact that my 67 year old wife has kept (with the exceptions of two pregnancies) her lovely hourglass figure, I have continued to stay trim as well.
I should think that if people(and including Medicare)would refuse to pay these ridiculous prices that they would come down.
Maybe pharmaceutical companies shouldn’t charge so much. I was on mounjaro, A cousin to ozempic. Worked great -— lost 25# and had great diabetes control. But I got tired of spending $500+ every month, after insurance. When my doctor decided to change the clinic to concierge and shuffle to nurse practitioners,those who didn’t want to spend thousands a year for the pleasure, I switched to a community clinic in my town. Yes, I see a nurse practioner, but they always get me in the same day, and they accept Medicare assignment -— $35 a visit, including labs! And they have some sort of deal with the government or the pharmaceutical company, to supply Victoza injections for $18/month. It’s a cousin to mounjaro, and is not quite as good as mounjaro for weight loss, but keeps my diabetes in check. Before I used that, I went back to metformin, 500 mg/day plus berberine supplement, 1-3 x day. a1c 6.5, blood sugars less than 100 fasting and 2hr post prandial. Even the berberine did help reduce my appetite, but I’m a great cheater, and it still controlled my bs.
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