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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why?  Because people need access to basic healthcare, and because treatments like this need to be monitored.  So carving out this one medication means that those privileged enough to already have healthcare will have access to it, while those who won’t have access to healthcare, let alone consistent healthcare, still won’t have access to this particular class of medications — no matter how wonderful they might be.

I’m much more concerned about universal healthcare access for everyone than I am about this particular carve-out. [/quote]

Look at statins.  They now cost $5/month with no insurance because they are off-patent and are similar wonder drugs.

GLPs will follow the same trajectory and be equally cheap once off-patent.[/quote]

Which might be true — but I’d still think that some sort of assessments need to be made prior to prescribing GLPs, and medical care needs to be available for possible side effects, some of which might be serious.  So while I think lowering prices is a great idea, I also think that it would be irresponsible, at least at this point, to prescribe them without also ensuring that other comprehensive medical care is also available.  That’s on top of my seeing universal health care as a major priority.

As to statins, my mother — who had a wonderful cardiologist— took statins when they were a relatively new treatment.  My mother had leg pain that coincided with taking the new medication. This was before muscle pains — some of which were debilitating and long lasting — were officially found to be a side effect of statins.  Just something to think about when using a relatively new treatment with burgeoning numbers of people. Some side effects might only occur in specific populations, or in combination with other specific interventions or circumstances— and might not emerge until huge numbers of people have been treated, or ample time has elapsed. Oversight, or, at least access to medical oversight is important.

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