In a ginormous new study, researchers found many health benefits of drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro

[Nova Scotia Mike]

Nice thread title

 

Ozemdick is pretty good.

 

Ozempenis has a nice ring to it too.

 

Manjunko?

Edited June 16, 2025 by Nova Scotia Mike

[blackhawkxx]

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced deals with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to slash the prices of some of their obesity drugs, including upcoming pills, in a landmark effort to expand access to the costly blockbuster treatments.

The agreements will cut prices of so-called GLP-1 drugs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in 2026 and offer the treatments directly to consumers at a discount on a website the Trump administration is launching in January called TrumpRx.gov.

 

That means Medicare will start covering obesity drugs for some patients for the first time starting mid-2026, a long-awaited move that could broaden the market for the medicines and spur more private insurers to cover them. Certain Medicare patients will pay a copay of $50 per month for all approved uses of injectable and oral GLP-1 drugs, including diabetes and obesity treatment.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/trump-eli-lilly-novo-nordisk-deal-obesity-drug-prices.html

[SwampNut]

4 hours ago, blackhawkxx said:

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced deals with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to slash the prices of some of their obesity drugs, including upcoming pills, in a landmark effort to expand access to the costly blockbuster treatments.

The agreements will cut prices of so-called GLP-1 drugs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in 2026 and offer the treatments directly to consumers at a discount on a website the Trump administration is launching in January called TrumpRx.gov.

 

That means Medicare will start covering obesity drugs for some patients for the first time starting mid-2026, a long-awaited move that could broaden the market for the medicines and spur more private insurers to cover them. Certain Medicare patients will pay a copay of $50 per month for all approved uses of injectable and oral GLP-1 drugs, including diabetes and obesity treatment.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/trump-eli-lilly-novo-nordisk-deal-obesity-drug-prices.html

 

 

The article doesn't say what you appear to think it says.  Hard to know since you didn't say anything, but the post here implies it.  Nobody actually knows the drugs covered or the prices, that I can find.  Also it's primarily for medicaid/medicare, so I guess his fat trailer park voters on welfare WILL see a benefit.  The rest of us, maybe?

 

[blackhawkxx]

48 minutes ago, SwampNut said:

 

  Also it's primarily for medicaid/medicare, so I guess his fat trailer park voters on welfare WILL see a benefit.  The rest of us, maybe?

 

I think Medicare actually applies to most of us here.

Also from the link, did you read it?

 

All Americans, even those who are not on Medicaid, Medicare, are going to be able to get the same price for their drugs, for their GLP-1s.”

 

Quote

Nobody actually knows the drugs covered or the prices, that I can find. 

 

Starting doses of existing injections like Novo’s Wegovy and Lilly’s Zepbound will be $350 per month on TrumpRX, but will “trend down” to $245 per month over a two-year period, another senior administration official said during the briefing.

 

 

Edited November 7, 2025 by blackhawkxx

[02XXCA]

Looks like Americans will still pay 2.5 to 4x more compared to most other countries even at the newly advertised prices.

 

Edited November 7, 2025 by 02XXCA

[SwampNut]

Nobody pays the actual list prices.  That's part of the game.

 

[Zero Knievel]

4 hours ago, SwampNut said:

Nobody pays the actual list prices.  That's part of the game.

So, put an end to the game.  This is what HMOs and insurance has done to us.  I remember when a doctor charged $40 for an office visit but left the insurance paperwork to you to deal with.