How much would you pay for cheap Ozempic? Does $35 billion sound about right?

Photo above - Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore believes American healthcare should be 100% free. He has made several (for profit) movies advancing this theory. The Biden administration this week proposed subsidizing the weight loss drug Ozempic. Is this an example of synergy, or reciprocity?

Yesterday several internet sites reported that 208 million Americans are obese or overweight. That’s two thirds of America. The report didn’t do a deep dive on the percentage of politicians, videogame coders, food stamp recipients etc. who are afflicted. But these tropes come to mind only because we’ve all seen the problem.

The Biden administration has a solution. They are rushing through a $35 BILLION (with a B) subsidy for cheap or free Ozempic. But since the election has been over for a month, is this really necessary?

Wait – it gets weirder. Ozempic isn’t even made in America. It’s under patent by Novo Norodisk, a Danish company. That’s a country you don’t normally associate with fat people, so why did they pour money into inventing Ozempic in the first place? They must have had the US market in mind all along. Possibly Mexico too?

In any case Ozempic may soon be dirt cheap. But how expensive is it if you DON’T have insurance? Um . .. $968 for a single dose. Yikes – not a misprint. See second link below.

So who's the target population for free Ozempic? Fat Americans with no health insurance? Aren’t we already giving Obamacare coverage away at cut rate prices? Do we have to give Ozempic away too, because insurance won't pay for drugs which are prescribed “off label” - to treat things the drug was never tested/approved for? Is obesity a disease? Is it caused by poor choices when dialing Door Dash? Getting zero exercise? Too much time watching TV or playing videogames?

With all the challenges facing America, I simply can’t believe we suddenly need to throw $35 billion into weight loss subsidies to that uninsured fat people can try to slim down. That money isn’t even going to end up as profits for an American company. It’s going straight to Denmark. Who the hell thought THIS was a good idea?

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Cheap Ozempic? How millions of Americans with obesity may get access to costly weight-loss drugs

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