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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has dismissed suggestions that plans to provide weight loss jabs to unemployed people with obesity are “dystopian”.
The UK government is partnering with pharmaceutical giant Lilly who are running a five-year trial in Greater Manchester to test if the weight-loss drug Mounjaro can help get more people back to work and prevent obesity-related diseases to ease the strain on the NHS in England.
The announcement prompted a backlash, with accusations that the government was stigmatising unemployed individuals and reducing people to their economic value.
Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Streeting said the jabs were part of a broader healthcare plan, adding that he was “not interested in some dystopian future where I involuntarily jab unemployed people who are overweight”.
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…the government is freely giving poor people a drug that costs $1000 a month to correct a stigmatized health condition and people are complaining? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Looks like it’s around £130-£180 per month on private prescription in the UK, or under £10 per month on an NHS prescription for those who qualify.
$1000 is what it costs in the price-bloated American healthcare system.
It’s likely not the case. Somewhere between the truth and what we read here, truth has gotten hidden or twisted. This is an article on a news website: any info that someone deemed worthy to publish has some flavour of propaganda, even if we can’t see it clearly.
People I know who have used this drug love it. As long as it’s not mandatory, making it available to everyone who can benefit from it sounds great.
https://mathbabe.org/2024/02/04/why-people-hate-wegovy/
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-does-ozempic-cure-all-diseases
ITT: Lots of Americans getting insulted by the fact that obesity brings health problems, and the fact that being obese is a self-destructive choice.
Where are the insulted Americans? I see only a few comments and no one seems offended to me.
Is this a fediverse thing where I’m not seeing all the comments or are you just making shit up to be self righteous about?
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that it’s the second one.
Except there’s literally none of that 🤷♂️
Maybe sometimes.
Obesity is only a choice if mental health issues are a choice too.
ITT : people who think you can “man up” your way through compulsion.
For the vast majority of people it’s a choice. Addiction? Maybe.
Hey don’t narrow it to just Americans, we’re not even the fattest country anymore I don’t think
Idk kinda sounds like that game with the happy pills
But this isn’t mood altering substances, it’s an obsesity drug.
Like antibiotics, it should be fine as long as it isn’t forced on people.
