Ozempic Costs a Lot of Money and Fails to Reduce Obesity-Related Problems

Nothing in the world is free. Drugs that magically make you not obese anymore without requiring any willpower at all are going to have brutal side effects.

Will the side effects be worse than the effects of obesity? Maybe not. Obesity is literally the most unhealthy thing in the world. But it’s like asking if a terminally depressed person would be better taking fentanyl. I’m sure fentanyl makes you feel better, but you need to be an adult and solve your own problems.

Someone in the media is being paid to use the brandname “Wegovy” instead of Ozempic in these negative news articles. The two drugs are the exact same thing, having the same active ingredient, semaglutide.

They are even both made by the same company, Denmark’s Novo Nordisk (now the most valuable company in Denmark, milking a fortune off the American fats). This makes it appear as though they released two versions of the same drug, not because they are a little bit different from each other and they wanted to see which one worked better, but because they wanted to pin the bad headlines on one version while the other was widely prescribed (until it is banned for causing problems we’ve yet to see).

Ozempic is the one everyone is on, so Wegovy is the name used in all these articles.

Reuters:

Drugs like Wegovy may trim your waistline but not medical costs, according to an analysis of U.S. health insurance claims shared with Reuters.

The full-year cost of care for U.S. patients with obesity two years after starting on Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy or similar GLP-1 drugs was $18,507, on average. That represents a 46% jump over the average annual medical cost of $12,695 prior to taking the medication, data provided by pharmacy benefits manager Prime The*****utics show.

Imagine that even before a $500 a month drug regiment, it cost over $12,000 just to keep these bulbous blobs alive.

Is it any wonder the medical establishment has no interest in promoting a healthy diet and exercise? These doctors are laughing all the way to the bank.

The costs for a similar control group of patients not taking the drugs grew by 14% for the same period.

Among GLP-1 patients, prescription drug costs drove most of the spending increase, but medical costs also climbed over the two-year period.

Over the two-year period, the analysis found “no reduction in obesity-related medical events,” such as heart attacks, strokes and diagnoses of type 2 diabetes, or use of prescription drugs for hypertension and high cholesterol, compared to the control group.

That’s actually confusing to me. I would have to give this a serious look, and see how long it takes for these things to go away if you stop being obese with a simple healthy diet and exercise routine. It’s possible that it takes your body longer than two years to recover, though that would be surprising.

The other option is that Ozempic has the same side effects as being obese, which also does not seem to make much sense. I expected that it would cause immune system problems, and potentially completely unforeseen problems such as birth defects or weird cancers. Maybe heart attacks are not surprising, but the rest of it is.

It will probably be a few years until they finally tell you what the real side effects are. I’m sure they more or less already know, but they will ride the scam for as long as possible, then eventually it will have to be banned because so many people died.

Right now they are only saying it causes serious problems if you overuse it.

If you’re fat, and I’m sure some of you are, just go read my articles about health and fitness. It’s not really difficult to lose weight. Frankly, you don’t even have to exercise. It makes it faster, and helps deal with the recovery from being fat, but it’s not actually necessary.

Maybe it’s time I wrote another extensive health and fitness piece. I lose my own work. I tell people to “go read” such and such a thing, and I can’t even link it, because I don’t know where it is.