[alphabettsy]

A night in the hospital is easily $12k almost anywhere in the U.S.

People with chronic health conditions spend an inordinate amount of time at the doctor and in hospitals. That could save a significant amount of money if that’s reduced or eliminated. Not to mention the time savings.

I could be wrong, but all things being equal doesn’t it make sense to spend $12k/year on medication than $12/year on doctor and specialist visits in addition to medication?

[rstuart4133]

A one off anecdote here - I ended up in hospital for a TIA. I'm in Australia, and this is a public hospital. Free in other words. I have never seen so many seriously obese people in my life. They were all occupying hospital beds. I swear at least half the beds were use occupied by them. Meanwhile, we have ambulance lining the ramps of hospitals, with patients in them, waiting for bed to become free.

To put the this in perspective, where I live spends about $10,000/yr/person on health. That's all kinds of health. I'm not sure $5,000/yr (which is about the price here) of GLP-1 would be a generate proportionate decline, but I would not write it off. The $10K is paid by everybody, the $5k would only be for the obese.