Medicare is now offering $50 GLP-1 prescriptions. The US may never be the same.

The latest breakthrough for GLP-1 drugs isn’t scientific.

It’s financial.

As of July 1, Medicare is providing coverage of GLP-1 medications for weight loss for just a $50 co-pay, potentially enabling millions more Americans to get onto this much-hyped new class of drugs.

Medicare’s GLP-1 Bridge Program, as it is called, is technically a one-year […] ...