On Friday, the states Medicaid administrator, MassHealth, ended coverage of GLP-1s and other medications when theyre prescribed solely for weight loss, saying the expense has become overwhelming
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The whole underlying theme here is this stigma and bias of not recognizing obesity as a disease like we do cancer and diabetes and everything else, says Florencia Halperin, an endocrinologist and chief medical officer at Form Health, an online medical weight loss clinic, For cancer, you would never have an employer who says, We're not covering this. Amanda Bonello, founder and CEO of the GLP-1 Collective, a nonprofit organization aiming to help patients access these medications, is not surprised at the lengths patients are going to