{"id":449273,"date":"2026-05-19T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/449273\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:07:08","slug":"why-glp-1s-arent-lowering-employers-costs-the-indicator-from-planet-money-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/449273\/","title":{"rendered":"Why GLP-1s aren&#8217;t lowering employers&#8217; costs : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779188828_67_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2600x1463+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F85%2F26%2Fe977e2124c89aa094f7b024d5d6e%2F9e316c13-1103-4b29-9414-3495eb0dfa4f.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"WIDE CROP  (14)\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Amanda Andrade-Rhoades\/AP Newsroom<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of employer health plans do not cover GLP-1s for weight loss. But roughly 20% do, many believing it will help their bottom line. Perhaps when employees take Wegovy or Zepbound, they\u2019ll need less medical care tied to health issues from obesity. Today on the show, can GLP-1s save employers money in the long run?<\/p>\n<p>Fact checking by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1268825622\/sierra-juarez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sierra Juarez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your Next Listen\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/92GYT4WE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">No healthcare premiums? In this economy?! Here&#8217;s how.<\/a><br \/>\u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tradeoffs.org\/2026\/04\/16\/should-people-who-want-glp-1s-have-to-work-for-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Julie Wernau&#8217;s original episode with TradeOffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Connect with The Indicator <br \/>\u2014 Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/npr.org\/indicatornewsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Indicator\u2019s brand new newsletter<\/a><br \/>\u2014 Find our <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/indicator_npr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">socials, YouTube and more<\/a>!<br \/>\u2014 For sponsor-free episodes, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscribe to NPR+<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Andrade-Rhoades\/AP Newsroom The vast majority of employer health plans do not cover GLP-1s for weight loss. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":["post-449273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}