{"id":236027,"date":"2026-01-16T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236027\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:01:16","slug":"government-grapples-with-broadening-access-to-glp-1s-weight-loss-drugs-amid-cost-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236027\/","title":{"rendered":"Government grapples with broadening access to GLP-1s weight-loss drugs amid cost concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors are calling on pharmaceutical companies to charge less for weight-loss drugs on the private market as the federal government grapples with a push to broaden access to the medications beyond people with diabetes and heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>More than 400,000 Australians pay for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/healthcare-and-fitness\/doctors-divided-on-push-for-taxpayer-funded-weight-loss-drugs-20260107-p5nsdr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blockbuster medicines that can cost up to $700 a month,<\/a> making them unaffordable for many in Australia, even though they are among the lowest prices for the drug in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doctors are calling on pharmaceutical companies to charge less for weight-loss drugs on the private market as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-236027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236027","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=236027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}