{"id":541722,"date":"2026-03-24T05:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541722\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:12:15","slug":"glp-1-ra-generics-have-arrived-could-we-buy-semaglutide-made-for-just-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541722\/","title":{"rendered":"GLP-1 RA generics have arrived. Could we buy semaglutide made for just $4?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Semaglutide is now generic. <\/p>\n<p>Just not in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>But in China, Brazil and Canada, generic drug makers are ready to grab the lucrative market for GLP-1 receptor agonists (RAs), which could drive prices down to $4 for a month of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Australia must wait longer, but with half a million Australians paying $250 a month for the drugs, the impact is expected to be explosive.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Semaglutide is now generic. Just not in Australia. But in China, Brazil and Canada, generic drug makers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[985,228927,97,243,3,986,30577,987,3587],"class_list":["post-541722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-diabetes","tag-glp-1-ra","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-news","tag-obesity","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-semaglutide","tag-weight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}