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From the reports that i have read (am indian), 20+ generics are expected, within roughly 2 months or so, with previous price being something along 10k INR (roughly 100USD) a month to about 3-4k INR (30-40 USD) a month. Drugs have always been kinda cheap here (as an example, a simple paracetamol (tylenol) tablet costs 1 INR (~1cent US)), so it is still expensive (for vast majority, it is more than 2-3 days of work), but much better. hope people use this cautiously though with reasonable expectations.
Sounds to me like the US is going to continue to be a country of morbidly obese poor people in a much skinnier world.
The rest of the world doesn't need Ozempic.
There are morbidly obese people all over the world, but the US does fat more bigly and with more of the population than any country I know... Looking it up with Google - lots of Pacific Island countries have slightly more obese people than the US (which is at 42%), also Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are tipping the scales in the US overweight class, but yeah - US is a world leader in total number of fat people, by a big margin - though China is growing quickly and may soon outweigh the US in total numbers, if not percentage of the population.
But they weren't there 30 years ago.
This is a lifestyle problem with a drug solution.
This is a food supply problem with a drug solution. You know what happened 35 years ago? Tobacco was banned in most US public spaces. You know where TOBACCO MONEY went? Processed foods. Sugar was replaced with HFCS - not just for the profit factor, but also because of the psycho-bio ramifications of mass consumption of HFCS. These are the same people who did meticulous scientific research on nicotine addiction, inhalation patterns, etc. and never published any of it. What do they know about food that they didn't share, but put into practice in your grocery stores and restaurants?