{"id":584168,"date":"2026-08-14T05:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584168\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:02:18","slug":"column-trial-will-offer-medicare-recipients-glp-1-drugs-without-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/584168\/","title":{"rendered":"COLUMN: Trial will offer Medicare recipients GLP-1 drugs without diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have eight friends, chances are good that at least one of them is currently taking a GLP-1 drug or has done so in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s because 12 percent or more of Americans report that they are taking or have taken the weight-loss medication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was initially prescribed for weight loss, and insurance companies are covering the expensive weight-loss drug for people with diagnoses such as diabetes. However, Medicare insurance normally doesn\u2019t cover\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you have eight friends, chances are good that at least one of them is currently taking a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[62944,163,85,46,4213,482],"class_list":["post-584168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-featured-2","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-medicare","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584168","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=584168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}