{"id":160416,"date":"2026-02-18T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160416\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:23:11","slug":"teachers-protest-broward-decision-to-drop-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160416\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers protest Broward decision to drop weight-loss drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"Boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023, in Los Angeles.\" title=\"Boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023, in Los Angeles.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023, in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>                Mario Tama<\/p>\n<p>            Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Broward school district will no longer cover popular weight-loss medications on its insurance plans, leading to complaints that the district is putting its financial health ahead of employees\u2019 health.<\/p>\n<p>The School Board recently decided to stop covering GLP-1 medications, such as Wegovy and Zepbound, for employees using them for weight loss. The drugs will still be covered for diabetes use, district officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The change takes effect April 1 and affects 2,216 people on district health insurance plans, Dildra Martin-Ogburn, director of benefits and employment services, told the Superintendent\u2019s Insurance and Wellness Advisory Committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/02\/13\/broward-schools-cut-coverage-of-weight-loss-drugs-to-save-12-million\/\">Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published February 15, 2026 at 10:40 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023, in Los Angeles.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[76819,76822,249,251,250,76820,76821],"class_list":{"0":"post-160416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-broward-school-district","9":"tag-employee-health-insurance","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","13":"tag-glp-1-coverage-cut","14":"tag-weight-loss-drugs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}