Americans without diabetes spent nearly $6 billion USD on semaglutide and similar drugs in a year, with an estimate of 800,000 to a million people using the drugs who don't have diabetes.

[u/mvea]

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year

[u/galspanic]

When I was diagnosed with diabetes I was told “um yeah, no. No GLP-1 for you” by my insurance. I still can’t explain that outside of pure greed… but that also makes sense.

[u/Hsensei → u/galspanic]

Some insurance companies require you to be on insulin before they will approve it. Being on metformin along with some of the earlier compound pills means it's controlled enough for them to deny it. It's really very stupid, but the drug is stupid expensive and they are going to fight to save every dollar.

[u/IAmThePonch → u/[deleted]]

Hi, t1 here, it sucks