Forget Universal Healthcare: Start with Universal Ozempic

[Anonymous]

Why are there no politicians campaigning on free Ozempic for everyone? Literally, 70% of the country is overweight and most people cannot afford to buy GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Ozempic only costs around $5 to produce a month worth of medication. It would cost the US government around 16 billion dollars/year to provide every adult Ozempic. Just make the drug OTC and provide it for free to every adult in the US who can provide their SSN to verify identity. This drug reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes by almost 20%, likely reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s, lowers risk of cancer and reduces all cause mortality by 10-12%. It makes absolutely no sense that we are not providing it for free to every adult that wants to take it. This policy would save US taxpayers money, while boosting US life expectancy and enhancing quality of life. Any politician who campaigned on free Ozempic would likely win in a landslide and there are many voters that would support the politician solely because they want free weight loss medication.

[Anonymous]

https://www.tilleydistribution.com/insights/how-ozempic-affects-food-sales/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.tilleydistribution.com/insights/how-ozempic-affects-food-sales/

That is somewhat conspiratorial. But yes it does reduce food sales. The Walmart data is very interesting. The people filling Ozempic prescriptions at Walmart bought much less junk food.

[Anonymous]

This is just ridiculous to me because the US is spending a trillion dollars a year on Medicare and 900B a year on Medicaid. Giving everyone free Ozempic could likely reduce Medicare spending by 10-20% and Medicaid spending by 5-10%. This would save taxpayers a minimum of 145B a year. Just role the program out without the administrative nonsense and ship it for free to anyone with a pulse that can verify identity.

[Anonymous]

Verify identity? Should we give it to illegals too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are there no politicians campaigning on free Ozempic for everyone? Literally, 70% of the country is overweight and most people cannot afford to buy GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Ozempic only costs around $5 to produce a month worth of medication. It would cost the US government around 16 billion dollars/year to provide every adult Ozempic. Just make the drug OTC and provide it for free to every adult in the US who can provide their SSN to verify identity. This drug reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes by almost 20%, likely reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s, lowers risk of cancer and reduces all cause mortality by 10-12%. It makes absolutely no sense that we are not providing it for free to every adult that wants to take it. This policy would save US taxpayers money, while boosting US life expectancy and enhancing quality of life. Any politician who campaigned on free Ozempic would likely win in a landslide and there are many voters that would support the politician solely because they want free weight loss medication.

They could also just go with universal healthcare or Medicare for All or whatever name you want to give it. Call it Trumpcare! I don't care what name just get this done. Now!

[Anonymous]

Does Trumpcare pay for breast implants?

[Anonymous]

Restaurants would go out of business.

[Anonymous]

Write your Congressional representatives and give them the idea.

[Anonymous]

Ozempic only costs around $5 to produce a month worth of medication.

What did the R&D cost? Isn't the manufacturer entitled to recoup that and also make a profit? Most drugs have a very low manufacturing cost, but we wouldn't have them without significant R&D expenses.

And, no, I really don't want the government to be involved in any of this. It's not as if we have the money, anyway, since the budget deficit keeps getting worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Ozempic only costs around $5 to produce a month worth of medication.

What did the R&D cost? Isn't the manufacturer entitled to recoup that and also make a profit? Most drugs have a very low manufacturing cost, but we wouldn't have them without significant R&D expenses.

And, no, I really don't want the government to be involved in any of this. It's not as if we have the money, anyway, since the budget deficit keeps getting worse.

Gotta keep sending those $20 billion handouts to Argentina!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Trumpcare pay for breast implants?

No but it does pay for the BIG wax lip look

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ozempic only costs around $5 to produce a month worth of medication.

What did the R&D cost? Isn't the manufacturer entitled to recoup that and also make a profit? Most drugs have a very low manufacturing cost, but we wouldn't have them without significant R&D expenses.

And, no, I really don't want the government to be involved in any of this. It's not as if we have the money, anyway, since the budget deficit keeps getting worse.

Gotta keep sending those $20 billion handouts to Argentina!

And 50 million payouts to Michael Flynn and J6 folks etc.

[Anonymous]

Or, the gov't could fund TV ads which say that eating too much, and eating the wrong foods, makes you fat and can lead to health problems. But that would imply that people should be responsible for their own actions instead of being bailed out by the government when they make bad choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or, the gov't could fund TV ads which say that eating too much, and eating the wrong foods, makes you fat and can lead to health problems. But that would imply that people should be responsible for their own actions instead of being bailed out by the government when they make bad choices.

If only it were that simple. What a world it would be if everything worked the way you think it does.