The FDA is expected to approve the diabetes drug tirzepatide for weight loss, but questions over pricing remain.
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I’m glad I just watch what I eat and stay healthy. Don’t need to be taking pills my body don’t really need.
When you are healthy, weight will go away!
Ounce of meth and tie ur self in the restroom.
13,000 dollars
better taking modafinil or meth
Yeah of course, screw self control, educating yourself about portion control and nutrition. Just take a drug for being fat and change nothing about yourself or your habits. How stupid.
Leave the land of the free come to Ireland Uk and most European countries it’s provided by the health care systems
Kardashians will get it 🤣😂
In other countries cost cheaper
This is America. There is profits to be made by keeping sick people sick. Sad but true.
That stuff makes me poop a lot
Insurance DO know that being overweight is a medical issue. They just don’t want to pay for it!
Svsm
Just do DNP
Dr black stock lied to us all through the COVID pandemic. She's not trustworthy on anything at all.
I take it it works
Rybelsus 7mg, ozempic in pill form, helped me lose weight, 225 to 185, and get my A1c from 12.4 to 6.5 in a year. Ofc I changed my lifestyle, exercised as well. My insurance stopped covering the medication at the end of December 2022. Really sucks how they just decide to not have it on their formulary anymore.
Nice Ad! 🧐🙄
I can understand that there is a real need to fix the obesity problem in America, but there are many other things that we also need to be looking at.
For example, most doctors lack proper education regarding nutrition and are quick to prescribe medications (and sometimes, even incentivized to do so) that should be considered as a last resort.
We also have sugar and other unnecessary additives in almost every single, non-wholefoods product in our grocery stores. Food companies know that such additives make their products very addicting.
Also, eating healthy foods that are well-balanced should not cost more than eating out. Currently, I can buy a cheeseburger for less than a salad.
Tackling problems like these do not require some miracle, medical discovery. The problem is that such measures, although beneficial for the future of mankind, would not generate as much profit. It is as simple as that.
For Those Really Need Would Do Anything For It
So What Does The FDA Do?
Let's Say I Have A Cure For Hep Do They Have To Approve It Before I Cam Sell It?
If you are willing to try this, when you can exercise and eat right, you deserve all the side effects that come with it.
Wait. They did a whole segment without even naming the drug? What the heck?!
Yeah this should be covered by insurance
Placebo almost delivers the same results
And then they all become addicted
I just need a$$
I tried this medicine. It didn't work out. Overbearing nausea and vomiting. I guess technically you could call this a weight loss medicine. Not for me
Big Pharma and their "US only Price Hikes" should be on the Governments slate of "Who to look at and what to do" list.
If it’s going to cost that much. Might as well save and get surgery 😂
How about exercise???? Jesus
When is the FDA going to approve the ban of fungicides, insecticides, pesticides and herbicides on all of our food??
No mention of how this drug was for treatment of type 2 diabetes and the weight loss was a side effect. They're pushing for approval as a weight loss drug because doctors have already been giving it to non-diebetics for a couple years for weight loss. The insurance companies just started catching on and denying it as covered.
Can not tell it is a solution or a trap.
Its not an obesity medication.
American way. Lizzard tongues popping everything out of a PEZ dispenser. Gawd forbid ya get up, eat right and exercise.
This is extremely fatphobic
News doing a free ad for big pharma, this is why we do not trust them any more..
It’s deadly don’t take if. Our friends died
This isn't news it's a paid infomercial for Big Pharma. Watching how gleeful the hosts are about this "great break through drug" further exemplifies how much control Big Pharma exerts over mainstream media. But hey, nothing really new here as this type of propaganda has been going on for decades. My trust for any mainstream media source is next to bill.
You want loss your weight. Work at target.
Work at overnight. Easy to loss weight. Pay money loss weight 🎉
Figures. I just lost 150 lbs the hard way.
Go outside stop eating very much lol you're welcome to me later
Maybe once insurance does start covering it, stores will start carrying clothes that fit me. Everything is huge right now. Even size 00 is what size 6 used to be. I haven't changed sizes and size 00 falls off of me. Ridiculous
It's so expensive, because it's new on the market, and these companies need to recoup the money used per research and development. I remember when the migraine medication, Ubrevely, first came on the market, my insurance refused to pay for it. Approximately 2 years later, it's now more affordable.
I’ll wait for the generic version that’ll be available for a lot less eventually just like any other drug that has been FDA approved…
A pity you guys don't have free healthcare, like we do in Communist Italy, France and the UK (the Communiest of all!). But ehi, as it works so well, you can simply continue to choose between feeding your family and buying vital treatments – why change?
Self control is cheaper
I need fat loss in my veins