Could the high cost of hugely popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy be coming down in the near future?
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00:00Could the high cost of hugely popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wagovy be coming down
00:06in the near future?
00:07It is on the table after the Biden administration released the next round of prescription drugs
00:12selected for Medicare price negotiations.
00:15The list includes 15 drugs which will undergo a negotiation process between Medicare and
00:20the drug makers.
00:22A month of Ozempic currently costs around $1,000 in the U.S., but can cost as little
00:27as $80 a month in some European countries.
00:32A recent poll suggested more than 5% of Americans are on the weight loss drugs known as GLP-1s.
00:39The new negotiated prices won't take effect until 2027.