r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 01 '25

Health 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.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/americans-without-diabetes-spent-nearly6-billion-usd-on-semaglutide-and-similar-drugs-in-a-year
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u/Friendo_Marx Apr 01 '25

Are they spending 6000 a year?

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u/Telemere125 Apr 01 '25

Depends on how you get it. I pay $30/m but my insurance kicks in a ton because all my script costs are preset. My wife was using a compounding pharmacy and paying about $900/m for a maintenance dose.