{"id":83869,"date":"2025-08-20T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83869\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:26:09","slug":"canadians-wont-see-price-of-weight-loss-drug-mounjaro-rise-despite-u-k-hike-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83869\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians won\u2019t see price of weight-loss drug Mounjaro rise despite U.K. hike &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>People using the popular weight-loss drug <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/mounjaro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mounjaro<\/a> in the United Kingdom are set to pay a higher price for it, as pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly said it will raise the U.K. list price by up to 170 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755073388_375_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This comes as U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to get drugmakers to raise prices in Europe to allow for price cuts in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>However, Canadians are not going to see a price hike, a spokesperson for Eli Lilly Canada told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/healthiq.jpg\" alt=\"Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet weekly health news<\/p>\n<p>Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week\u2019s announcement was specific to the UK, not Canada, so there are no pricing updates to share for Canadian patients,\u201d the spokesperson told Global News in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>The new U.K. price, which also applies to Lilly\u2019s Type 2 diabetes medicine with the same name, is effective from September. The price for a month\u2019s supply of the highest dose of the medicine will increase from \u00a3122 to \u00a3330 (C$227.98 to C$616.67), the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11340821\/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-targets-latest-variant-canada-approval\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/40b923005e8c381f6d0673aa27e1636ad795c27f53e7619f09eff1893de1e062.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPfizer says Canada just approved its new COVID-19 vaccine for this fall\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11339177\/united-states-consumer-survey\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755699969_23_7424b63a57859aa0c6e32a4e462e54426c8d7e0ae66c2d528f2d8c634eb4629b.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAs U.S. consumer sentiment hits Great Recession lows, what\u2019s next for Canada?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The move reflects how the pharmaceutical industry is navigating policy changes in the United States, by far its most lucrative market, where Trump is pushing for lower domestic prices and encouraging price hikes overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks told an investor call that parity between U.S. and European drug pricing was desirable in the long run, though he warned that European governments \u201care not signing up to pay more for drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from Reuters<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size People using the popular weight-loss drug Mounjaro in the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377,1779],"class_list":{"0":"post-83869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-mounjaro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}