The goal should be to use Ozempic until you are in a better place to manage things yourself. The goal should not be to get people hooked on Ozempic for their entire lives.
Perhaps Ozempic prescriptions should come with prescribed exercise with check-in and monitoring, or something.
This gives a vast number of people 5-10 years longer lives, and I think this is great thing, even if some pharma executives end up getting rich.
Many people in my wife’s family have thyroid gland dysfunction and have to take thyroid hormones their whole lives.
This is literally how almost all medicine works that treats a chronic condition.
> Perhaps Ozempic prescriptions should come with prescribed exercise with check-in and monitoring, or something.
Why?
That is temporary. The effects are real. The fact that you don't think big pharma should profit handsomely for making it happen is not the only alternative. Before too long semaglutide, as one example, will be out of patent and available as a generic. It won't cost a thousand bucks a month to big pharma, it'll be practically free. Cheap enough that most insurance plans will likely subsidize it all the way to zero out-of-pocket cost just because the ROI is so good.
My spouse must take a thyroid medicine every day for life.
Not taking these pills is life threatening. How is taking them not acceptable?