Weight Watchers, Will Power, Oz & Oprah

If “obesity” is a “disease” without an ounce of “will power” involved, as AMA says, how can some health plans have the gall to no longer cover Ozempic? Yet, how does Oprah eat her Weight Watchers’ lunch as she now pigs out on Oz?

I don’t get it. Unless, there’s something we don’t readily see about the steaks involved. The forever dieting Chicago tv matron who is richer than a foot-long eclair, made yet another financial killing joining, then, hawking the Weight Watchers’ mantra that “will power” is the secret sauce in losing weight as well as keeping it off. But now the WSJ reports some overwhelmed insurers are balking at covering the popular drug. And, the paper’s coverage in its separate, “There’s No Easy Way to Stop Taking Ozempic,” suggests somebody is having a financial feast at some guests’ expense. Meanwhile, Oprah sold out her remaining interest in WW over some vague disagreement over not switching to will power be damned weight loss drugs (like Ozempic, Wegovy or Zepbound) fast enough … even though WW swears it’s reengineered plate of ideas in a much ballyhooed “turnaround” gambit is loaded with weight loss drugs.

Does something smell fishy here, to anybody else? You know, like a “healthy” Mc Filet-O-Fish with fries & a coke? Could it be health plans & insurers are playing revolving menu games with Big Pharma & weight loss doctors … or vice versa? Put another way: Is the rapidly expanding use of Ozempic & other weight loss drugs, even in non-obese instances, really a financial issue or due to growing legal liability as well as medical concerns? Surely, “obesity” is not about losing just 10 or 20 pounds like the common dieter is shooting for? And yet, are the WSJ’s medical sources now telling us weight loss drugs for even these average folks are not quite up to snuff as billed?

Davd Soul