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Medicare Weight-Loss Drug Discount Excludes Sickest Patients

Medicare's $50 GLP-1 pilot excludes patients with conditions like sleep apnea, routing them to costly Part D plans. Jeff La Marca, morbidly obese and prediabetic, was denied despite high medical need, highlighting affordability gaps in the program's design.