A weight loss specialist and paediatric endocrinologist call for government funding of Wegovy, citing health benefits, equity concerns, and the need for proper medical oversight in treating obesity as a disease.
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Yeah, well, it's that's what the UK have done, and uh, you know, they they've obviously made their choice, but it is true that you can spend an enormous amount of money, and there are two basic issues with paying it back. Number one is that if you stop people uh developing diabetes well into the future, uh, then that is going to save the taxpayer money on things like dialysis in about ten years' time, and it's quite challenging the way that our current government budgeting process works to capture those sorts of benefits today. Um that's that's number one. And number two, uh our healthcare system when it comes to accounting for the costs of things, like putting a person on dialysis, they don't do what they call price and volume funding. So uh it's actually difficult to to make the case that you're saving money if they don't know what things cost. So I'm not trying to make excuses, but we've we've made a lot of progress on this kind of whole of society uh approach to funding medicines that will save us money in the long term. Um, but that's some of the the challenges that we've run into so far, and it just means we've got to keep fixing those things.
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expanding access to prevent diabetes in overweight groups
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