Posts Tagged ‘copays’

Are Health Plans Insuring Profits More Than Health?

May 27, 2025 — “It’s absolutely insane to try to keep up with it all,” says obesity medicine physician Laura Davisson. She is talking about the impossible maze of requirements that so-called health insurance plans set up to prevent people from securing coverage for medicines to treat obesity. It leads us to ask: Are health plans insuring profits more […]

Exploiting People with Obesity Through Abusive Copays

December 13, 2024 — Some pharmacy benefit plans have taken a dark turn when it comes to obesity medicines. Let’s not sugarcoat it. They are exploiting people with obesity through abusive copays on drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic – two brands of semaglutide. These PBMs pretend they are covering part of the cost of the drug. But in fact, […]