The Benefits of Classifying Obesity as a Disease

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The treatment that we're talking about today are obesity drugs. Are you using these drugs in your own practice? Yes, I've been practicing obesity medicine now. How does classifying obesity as a disease change the treatment? What are the practical effects of that? Yeah, because what we're leveraging for is better insurance coverage.

Pharmaceutical companies and insurance providers are at odds over a new class of drugs that have proven quite effective at helping people living with obesity lose weight. Bloomberg’s Robert Langreth and Emma Court join this episode to share their reporting on recent advancements in weight loss treatments–and the fight over who should pay for them. And Dr. Angela Fitch, a physician and president of the Obesity Medical Association, talks about the challenges of treating obesity.

Read their reporting here: Good Luck Paying for Those $10,000 Obesity Drugs Everyone’s Talking About

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