If you have heard that new weight loss medications mean you can eat all the junk food you want and still lose weight — you've heard wrong. Still, it's undeniable that a huge shift is underway in how obesity and overweight is being treated by doctors due to a new class of drugs known as GLP-1 agonists. The drugs are more successful in achieving weight loss and appear to have fewer side effects than previous generations of obesity treatments.
Currently, it expects 40 million people have health insurance plans that would cover the medication. "Manufacturer supply constraints and the evolution of insurance coverage will likely impact broad [anti-obesity medication] accessibility, and this is a key question around use of these mediations," the analysts said. "It is unclear how insurance coverage will expand over time; it may depend on comorbidity trials .
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