Amen.
In a previous job, I was the person who supported employees with regards to their pharmacy benefits in a large self-insured health system. You’d think they could get it right. One piece of this was suggesting changes to the formulary to support what people need. The resistance to paying for any obesity-related drugs was and is immense from insurers and employers. Even when I plopped study after study demonstrating that the long term savings and improved outcomes are more than worth it, the excuse kept traction because of shared prejudice against fat people. Even non-profits put dollars ahead of lives. Like Mitch Hedberg noted, alcoholism is a disease, but it’s the only one you can get yelled at for having
More on point for this discussion? Oatmeal.
