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Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine - NYT [US News] (web.archive.org)

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We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation — the limits of which aren’t even clear yet.

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[–] not_a_king 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(the limits of the price tag isnt even clear yet)

[–] NewsUser@fediverse.boo 2 points 1 year ago

I'm ok if people with money want to throw their money at experimental treatments to try. I do take issue with locking life saving medicine behind high price tags.

The article mentions Ozempic and Wegovy which are new weight loss drugs (originally intended for diabetics), I believe I read in a different article that those cost $10k/yr. From my understanding, most of the use of them have been for fad weight loss instead of it going to the people that it was intended for (and might need it). Insurance is already a pain when it comes to medications, I'm sure for medications like this where its a fad medication on top of having legitimate uses it is even harder to get insurance to pay.

inb4 articles like: "America, and its great pay wall"