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mandevil | 22 days ago
Every country arranges their payment mechanism slightly differently- the US is worse than pretty much all of them but they are all slightly different- but every form of insurance has to be able to walk away in the negotiations, or else the monopoly producer will hike the price up.
I imagine if you forced insurance to cover but also removed patent protection and allowed generics immediately... drug companies would be even more unhappy than the insurance companies would if you forced them to cover GLP-1's.
lotsofpulp|21 days ago
Insurance companies have to pay $100k+ per month for medicine for anemic people, and many other much higher cost medicines. Why is a couple hundred dollars to fix THE single biggest cause of future healthcare expenses (diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol) not covered?
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2017/05/...
Insurers routinely pay for $1M+ NICU babies, $100k+ heart surgeries, yada yada, but the US government draws the line at medicine that costs $200 per month that prevents hundreds of thousands of dollars in future spend?
I can’t make it make sense, unless the junk food/alcohol/restaurant/sugar caffeine drink lobby has their tentacles deep in the government.
rootusrootus|21 days ago
I think the easiest answer is found by looking towards religion. Gluttony being one of the seven deadly sins. Obesity is seen as a moral problem by a lot of people, so paying for its treatment would be broadly unpopular. People who cannot control their appetite need to suffer.