In a dual-bylined editorial, President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders called on the makers of the uber-popular new generation of weight loss drugs to make them cheaper.that Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, the manufacturers of the expensive diabetes and obesity injectables Ozempic and Mounjaro respectively, lower the prices of these game-changing drugs and "stop ripping off the American people.
As the duo points out, American patients prescribed Novo's landmark drug Ozempic and its sister weight-loss drug Wegovy arethan in countries with cheaper healthcare like Canada, Germany, and Denmark, a state of play which the politicians rightfully decry as "unacceptable.
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