The long term benefits for getting obesity under control are counted in the tens of billions of dollars. There will be fewer knee replacements, heart attacks, kidney failures, and a whole host of other related maladies.
Those costs are coming out of your pocket.
If a pill or shot can safely reduce those things…why would anyone want to stop that.
If it was only a matter of “just eat less”, this wouldn’t be an issue.
Go to Walmart and hand this stuff out like candy.
Averted disease related costs are going to be at least 4-5 billion and net savings to Medicare of hundreds of millions as the drug discounts come online 2026 or 2027.