{"id":2097,"date":"2026-07-24T11:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/the-billion-dollar-problem-keeping-ozempic-wegovy-and-zepbound-from-patients\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:29:04","slug":"the-billion-dollar-problem-keeping-ozempic-wegovy-and-zepbound-from-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/the-billion-dollar-problem-keeping-ozempic-wegovy-and-zepbound-from-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"The billion-dollar problem keeping Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound from patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ozempic, Wegovy, and similar drugs may deliver excellent health value, but covering them for millions of eligible patients could overwhelm insurance budgets. Researchers say better long-term support is needed and warn that low-cost compounded versions may carry serious safety risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ScienceDaily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozempic, Wegovy, and similar drugs may deliver excellent health value, but covering them for millions of eligible patients could overwhelm insurance budgets. Researchers say better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}