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I’ve been on the record for a while now arguing that the conversation around obesity medicines ought not be a debate about whether the medicines are “worth it” -- it
This journal article makes the case -- via analysis of claims data -- that patients almost never fill scripts for obesity medicines. The topline is that 10 of every 11