The lower prices stem from the Medicare negotiation program created under the Biden administrationās Inflation Reduction Act.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on TuesdayĀ announcedĀ lower prices onĀ 15 costly prescription drugsĀ under Medicare, including Ozempic and Wegovy.
The price cuts come through the Medicare drug price negotiation program created underĀ the Inflation Reduction Act, which Joe Biden signed into law in 2022.
Itās different from Donald TrumpāsĀ āmost favored nationā drug pricing approach, which relies on executive orders and voluntary deals with drugmakers ā not legislation. Trump recently announced suchĀ a deal with Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, to lower the price of the drugs in exchange for tariff relief.
Which is quite a lot of words to say eating too much no-nutrition highly processed fast food/easy-prep bullshit.
Iām not disagreeing in the least that the mass of HFCS and salt laden garbage is a big driver of it. However, those things only are allowed to become the staples of our diets that they have because people are too complacent and willing to open the freezer rather than do a bit of whole food kitchen work.
Iāve made it a point to learn what I can to avoid the loss of capability to make decent food for ourselves. As I say to my kids, I worry thereāll be a day when Grandmaās famous thanksgiving pie comes in a box from Sarah Lee.
Agreed, but the problem is honest attempts to avoid it. Unless you regularly look at labels, youād be SHOCKED at all the products this crap is in.
Bread has HFCS. Ketchup. Itās literally everywhere.
Try going down the frozen food aisle at your local grocery store and notice all the stuff has cheese.
Yes, consumption is up, but the reason consumption is up is that itās ubiquitous. And the reason for it isnāt that people are choosing it, itās being placed in the products people choose because the government is subsidizing those industries.
Itās super hard to tell people āWell, just make healthier choicesā when 80% of available choices are unhealthy or 100% if weāre talking affordable choices.
https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/healthy-diets-remain-unaffordable-for-a-third-of-the-world-s-population/en