Democratic senators call on RFK Jr. to keep rule allowing Medicare coverage of anti-obesity drugs

Democratic senators call on RFK Jr. to keep rule allowing Medicare coverage of anti-obesity drugs

A group of Democratic senators are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to keep a proposed Biden-era rule that would have allowed Medicare and Medicaid to cover drugs used to treat obesity after the Trump administration decided not to finalize it. Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), Cory…

Dems demand RFK Jr. preserve Medicare coverage of obesity drugs as Pharma profits face big hit · American Wire News

Democrat senators are begging Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to keep a proposed Biden-era rule pertaining to obesity drugs. In November, the Biden administration proposed a rule that would have allowed Medicare and Medicaid to cover anti-obesity drugs such as Ozempic. The Biden administration has proposed a new rule enabling Medicare and Medicaid to cover weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. If approved, the rule wou…

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Patients Cut Off From Cheaper Obesity Drugs as FDA Halts Sales of Copycats – DG Verifications & Stats

Hundreds of thousands of Americans stand to soon lose their access to cheaper weight-loss drugs, with a federal crackdown on copycat versions threatening to disrupt treatment and raise costs. The Food and Drug Administration has ordered producers and sellers of the less expensive products to wind down operations in the coming weeks now that it has declared there are no longer shortages of the blockbuster drugs Wegovy and Zepbound. Produced throu…