Comment by MarkusQ

Comment by MarkusQ 8 hours ago

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> Medicare covered it for treating Type 2 diabetes but not for weight loss

> [...] to Bucklew’s surprise, her Medicare Advantage plan covered it even

> though she wasn’t diabetic, charging just a $25 monthly copay.

> [...] Then her Medicare plan notified her that it would no longer cover

> the drug [...] With coverage denied, Bucklew became part of an unsettlingly

> large group: older adults who begin taking GLP-1s and related drugs [...] and

> then stop taking them within months.

This feels like it's really straining the facts to jam them into a narrative, then mostly fails to construct one. Is it an article about drug side effects? Insurance fraud? Health benefits of GLP-1s? Medicare policy?

Strangely, it feels like something that would actually have been more coherent if it had been written by an LLM.