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JT45242

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1. Expensive in the US...
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 06:27 AM
Jun 2024

Yes $1000 in the US. But only about $100 a month in Canada.

Unregulated greed is the reason these are so expensive in the US. Big pharma decided that it would rather sell fewer at a ginormous profit and use that money to buy Congress critters and SCOTUS rather than make as many as they can and sell at the Canadian price of $100 per month.

If we regulated pharma and insurance properly in this country, they would be cheaper here. But insurance companies also buy Congress critters and SCOTUS so that they can gamble that the long term cost of obesity will fall on a different company rather than doing the logical thing that reducing long term health risk lowers the risk of the insurance company. But, the insurance companies are betting that the patient will switch jobs or the company will switch plans before the consequences of not using a drug that lowers risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, etc kicks in

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