re: Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk surges past Tesla with market value of $566B

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without enough emphasis opn patient accountability and healthier patients.

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In all due respect. You are talking out of your arse! It costs around $1000 per month. Trust me. Insurance companies are holding patients accountable. Hell Novo Nordisk even offers health coaches to the patients prescribed Ozempic. The compliance data is available to the insurance companies. If a patient does not use the Novo Nordisk health coach then the doctor gets a request for more documentation from the prescribing provider asking for proof that the patient met with nutritionist or dietician and their hemoglobin A1C is improving.

Also I have seen many cases where a noncompliant diabetic and obese patient (what the OT would call a Fatty McLazyass) get put on Ozempic and they lose 10 pounds or so in the first 2-3 months. All of sudden something clicks in their brain and their behavior starts to change. I saw a patient today who I started on Ozempic last year. Dude was the definition of a Fatty McLazzyass. He did not give a shite about his health. He was 26 had a BMI of 58 and hemoglobin A1C of 13.7%. He was on 3 blood pressure medications and it was only borderline controlled. He was so obese that he was getting disability payments just because of his weight and the fact that he could barely walk. He blamed his obesity on the fact that his whole family was fat, had always been fat, and just accepted the fact that he was going to need an amputation of one leg or both and be on dialysis by age 50. After he started losing weight and Ozempic did away with his appetite between meals he realized that he did not have to stay fat. He started really paying attention to what the nutritionist was telling him, joined a gym, hired a personal trainer and has lost over a 120 lbs. He is still obese but his BMI is down into the 40s and his blood pressure is now controlled with only an ARB which I am keeping him on for the renal and cardio protective benefits as much as for blood pressure effects. He has come off insulin and his A1C was 6.2% today. Oh and he is no longer on disability and medicaid because he now has a job with health insurance. His story is also a lot more common than you would think especially among younger diabetics which is the population group to target to lower the rate at which health care costs are increasing.