The lower prices stem from the Medicare negotiation program created under the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday announced lower prices on 15 costly prescription drugs under Medicare, including Ozempic and Wegovy.
The price cuts come through the Medicare drug price negotiation program created under the Inflation Reduction Act, which Joe Biden signed into law in 2022.
It’s different from Donald Trump’s “most favored nation” drug pricing approach, which relies on executive orders and voluntary deals with drugmakers — not legislation. Trump recently announced such a deal with Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, to lower the price of the drugs in exchange for tariff relief.
Get out of here with that judgmental attitude toward what other people do with their bodies.
Drugs like Ozempic have worked for people when nothing else would. And it’s not an easy solution; it can actually be really unpleasant to take these. But the people on it are desperate enough for real solutions to do it. In those cases it’s used in tandem with walking and other weight-appropriate exercise.
I’m thin, by the way. I just can’t stand this kind of thoughtless judgmental attitude. It’s the exact equivalent of talking about welfare queens.
I used it as a holdover while getting diagnosed with ADHD, and you are right; it’s not exactly a pleasant experience. I didn’t get the bad nausea that other people reported, but if I ate “wrong” there’d be consequences for sure. But it did help with culling the binge-eating I had long enough to get my ADHD diagnosis and onto medication for that, which has helped my executive function improve to where I was able to stop ozempic and have not reverted back to those bad habits.
Executive function disorders are a bitch for sure.
For some, it’s not a poor eating habits, it’s that they have other issues that prevent weight loss.
Look at Oprah, one of the wealthiest women in the world. Undoubtedly has had chefs cooking for her for decades; wasn’t able to fully manage her weight until glp-1 drugs.
I get that might not be who people see using these drugs, but the people who really need these medications are those who have issues preventing them from losing the weight.