{"id":34113,"date":"2024-05-19T14:41:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=34113"},"modified":"2024-05-19T14:41:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T18:41:54","slug":"outrageously-priced-weight-loss-drugs-could-bankrupt-us-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=34113","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOutrageously\u201d priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2141945373-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Prices would need to be dramatically slashed to avoid increasing the national deficit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2024\/05\/outrageously-priced-weight-loss-drugs-could-bankrupt-us-health-care\/\">\u201cOutrageously\u201d priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;In the US, the estimated net price (after rebates) of Wegovy is $809 per month. In Denmark, the price is $186 per month. A study by researchers at Yale estimated that drugs like Wegovy can be profitably manufactured for less than $5 per month.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices would need to be dramatically slashed to avoid increasing the national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[48,1787,57],"class_list":["post-34113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-health","tag-ozempic","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34116,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34113\/revisions\/34116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}