Congressional Budget Office: 'How Would Authorizing Medicare to Cover Anti-Obesity Medications Affect Federal Budget?'
October 23, 2024
October 23, 2024
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Budget Office issued the following report on Oct. 8, 2024, entitled "How Would Authorizing Medicare to Cover Anti-Obesity Medications Affect the Federal Budget?"
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Medicare beneficiaries who are overweight or who have the medical condition of obesity are more likely to have worse health outcomes and higher health care expenditures than beneficiaries in the healthy weight cate . . .
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Medicare beneficiaries who are overweight or who have the medical condition of obesity are more likely to have worse health outcomes and higher health care expenditures than beneficiaries in the healthy weight cate . . .