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Just when you thought Biden was finally going to shut up and fade away, he does something else that's monumentally stupid. He is proposing a plan for Medicare and Medicaid to cover the cost of Ozempic and Wegovy treatments. This is fucking outrageous, another scheme that'll cost billions of dollars. The estimate of $35 billion over the next decade, or $3.5 billion a year, is a joke. If implemented, it'll be more than double that figure within a few years.
The stuff costs $1K a week, and there are tens of millions of fat fucks on Medicare and Medicaid that'll qualify to receive the treatment. The argument for the implementation is, of course, that HHS spends more on that for heart disease, diabetes, and other medical issues caused by obesity. The assumption that those costs will magically disappear is bullshit of the highest order.
This is a perfect example of the overreach that bureaucratic agencies have. Unelected minions spend hundreds of billions on bullshit like this, without the consent of Congress or the people. The recent Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright v Raimondo, which changes forty years of precedent, says actions like this are illegal. The court ruled Congress must write laws and appropriate funds for major policy decisions, finally taking away the power of the administrative cabal. It's about fucking time.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning.
The costly proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services immediately sets the stage for a showdown between the powerful pharmaceutical industry and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken opponent of the weight-loss drugs who, as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency, could block the measure.
While the rule would give millions of people access to weekly injectables that have helped people shed pounds so quickly that some have labeled them miracle drugs, it would cost taxpayers as much as $35 billion over the next decade.
“It’s a good day for anyone who suffers from obesity,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told The Associated Press in an interview. “It’s a game changer for Americans who can’t afford these drugs otherwise."
apnews.com
This is another insidious expansion of the regulatory state. What's particularly alarming is what will grow from this, because it will quantify obesity as a disease. That will logically allow government funding for bariatric surgery and other expenditures that are currently banned by law.
Medicare has been barred from offering the drugs under a decades-old law that prohibits the government-backed insurance program from covering weight-loss products. The rule proposed by the Biden administration, however, would recognize obesity as a disease that can be treated with the help of the drugs.
The Loper Bright ruling:
en.m.wikipedia.org
The stuff costs $1K a week, and there are tens of millions of fat fucks on Medicare and Medicaid that'll qualify to receive the treatment. The argument for the implementation is, of course, that HHS spends more on that for heart disease, diabetes, and other medical issues caused by obesity. The assumption that those costs will magically disappear is bullshit of the highest order.
This is a perfect example of the overreach that bureaucratic agencies have. Unelected minions spend hundreds of billions on bullshit like this, without the consent of Congress or the people. The recent Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright v Raimondo, which changes forty years of precedent, says actions like this are illegal. The court ruled Congress must write laws and appropriate funds for major policy decisions, finally taking away the power of the administrative cabal. It's about fucking time.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning.
The costly proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services immediately sets the stage for a showdown between the powerful pharmaceutical industry and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken opponent of the weight-loss drugs who, as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency, could block the measure.
While the rule would give millions of people access to weekly injectables that have helped people shed pounds so quickly that some have labeled them miracle drugs, it would cost taxpayers as much as $35 billion over the next decade.
“It’s a good day for anyone who suffers from obesity,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told The Associated Press in an interview. “It’s a game changer for Americans who can’t afford these drugs otherwise."
Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs for millions of obese Americans
Millions of Americans would be eligible to have costly weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic covered by Medicare or Medicaid under the rule.
apnews.com
This is another insidious expansion of the regulatory state. What's particularly alarming is what will grow from this, because it will quantify obesity as a disease. That will logically allow government funding for bariatric surgery and other expenditures that are currently banned by law.
Medicare has been barred from offering the drugs under a decades-old law that prohibits the government-backed insurance program from covering weight-loss products. The rule proposed by the Biden administration, however, would recognize obesity as a disease that can be treated with the help of the drugs.
The Loper Bright ruling:
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo - Wikipedia
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