In hand out of billions of $$$ to BIG PHARMA CORPORATIONS…Biden pushes for medicaid and medicare to pay for free Ozempic weight loss drug

[elektra]

To date, I have traveled 17 countries from Asia to Europe and North, Central and South America as well as all 50 states in my 74 years, whistle britches.

That's a fact, but they, unlike you, can determine obesity--or are you just in denial.
BTW, you seem to disregard the other sources I cited. Fail.

Average adult weight in the US, male and female, 183 lbs. Average adult weight for the rest of the world is 137 lbs. Try again.
The average weight of people in the United States and North America is higher than in any other places around the world.

How Much Does the Average Man Weigh?

Discover how much the average man weighs. Also find out how to use BMI and other tools to determine if you’re at a healthy weight.

www.healthline.com

Yes the government and lifelong students calling themselves researchers wrote biased crap with my tax dollars.

Aging populations are heavier. Illegal aliens, heavy, and every other person on earth is heavy. I seen it. All over the world.

Everyone is fat

 

[g5000]

That's what the demented twatwaffle still in the WH is willing to take out of your pocket to give to the drug companies and some fat **** sitting on his couch.
Stop eating. Take a ******* walk.

You do realize you just re-elected a fat **** who is literally opposed to exercising, right?

He actually believes exercise shortens your life. I kid you not.

No wonder he chose a crackpot like RFK, Jr. for HHS.

 

[rightwinger]

Wegovy, etc., will pay the cost for it over and over in better health.

Fact is, the stuff works and leads to significant weight loss.

Insurance companies are better off with clients having less weight. Saves money in the long run.

 

[elektra]

You do realize you just re-elected a fat **** who is literally opposed to exercising, right?

He actually believes exercise shortens your life. I kid you not.

No wonder he chose a crackpot like RFK, Jr. for HHS.

Of course, Kamala exercises in the dark, under covers, while Trump was golfing which is exercise.

Democrats always prove they are of low intelligence

 

[Polishprince]

What is absurd about an affordable weight loss drug?

$1000 a month is absurd

Hardly. The patients will be saving that $1000 by buying less food.

If you eat 3 or 4 pizzas, a couple of gallons of Ben and Jerry's every day, it will easily add up to a lot more than $1000.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

The government should not be a cash windfall for the drug companies for sure.

The contrast between the Biden and Trump Administrations' approach to America's health, is just another example of the Dem's incompetent and corrupt approach to every problem.

Trump's HHS Secretary nominee, RFK Jr., wants to reduce federal funding for junk foods, ultra-processed foods, and food additives. Currently, the government recommended dietary guidelines allow for junk food, junk food is eligible for food stamps, and junk food is fed to our children in schools, all promoted with federal dollars.

RFK Jr.'s No. 1 hurdle to take on unhealthy food: Money

The federal government invests little money in healthy food initiatives compared with what the food industry spends promoting fast food and sugary drinks.

www.nbcnews.com

RFK Jr. wants to address the real root causes, and actually fix health. Remember when you were in school, and there was only one fat kid in your class? Now, it's nearly half.

"More than 40% of school-aged children and adolescents have at least one chronic health condition." (CDC Link)

Contrast this to the Biden Admin's approach to addressing America's obesity and cancer crisis...

Spend more taxpayer money on a bandaid that prolongs and does not really address the problem.

Keep eating junk and avoiding exercise.

Just inject experimental drugs (Ozempic is a recombinant DNA drug made with living cells) with terrible side effects to enrich Big Pharma, the largest donor to Democrats.

It costs $1000/month, and you have to take it forever.

Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs for millions of obese Americans

Millions of Americans would be eligible to have costly weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic covered by Medicare or Medicaid under the rule.

apnews.com

Thank goodness this extreme incompetence and corruption is coming to a swift end.