{"id":121521,"date":"2025-11-06T18:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/121521\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:39:17","slug":"is-your-employer-cutting-off-your-access-to-glp-1-drugs-tell-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/121521\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your employer cutting off your access to GLP-1 drugs? Tell us."},"content":{"rendered":"

GLP-1 drugs have transformed the lives of many Massachusetts residents<\/a> who have long struggled to lose weight. But the pricey medications are about to get harder for some people to afford. <\/p>\n

Starting on Jan. 1, several of the state\u2019s biggest health insurers, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts<\/a> and Point32Health<\/a>, will no longer cover GLP-1s when they are prescribed for weight loss. The insurers will, however, give large employers the option of paying extra to continue covering the weight-loss drugs for their workers.<\/p>\n

Now that open enrollment for health insurance has started<\/a>, the Globe is looking for workers at large employers that have opted not to cover GLP-1s anymore. Have you been taking the drugs to lose weight and work for a company that plans to stop covering them? Are you struggling to figure out what to do? We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n

Fill out the survey below and a reporter may be in touch.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Saltzman can be reached at jonathan.saltzman@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLP-1 drugs have transformed the lives of many Massachusetts residents who have long struggled to lose weight. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8239,28174,85376,35938,134,524,1255,111,139,33257,69,85377,24173,863,55940,13883,3040,3337,47405,18953,85378,46960],"class_list":["post-121521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-american","tag-americas","tag-arranged","tag-drugmakers","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-medicines","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-american","tag-nz","tag-pharmaceutical-drugs","tag-posed","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-a","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vermont","tag-wegovy","tag-weight-loss-shot","tag-weightloss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}