STAT+: Medicare’s mum on GLP-1s, and Massachusetts sues United
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This is the online version of STAT’s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.&#x A0;Sign up here. Hello, and all hail Chonkers! Get your Alice Cooper voice ready, because school’s out for summer. But HCI is open year-round, so tell me all about your summer plans and any juicy intel you have on the health care industry: bob.herman@statnews.com. Radio silence on obesity coverage cost Medicare is advertising that older adults can get Wegovy and Zepbound, specifically for weight loss, starting this July for $50 a month. But the government still is not sharing how much this will cost taxpayers, who will be footing most of the bill.Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…