This matters for Australia because it provides the first real-world signal that medicines may be able to bend the obesity curve at scale. This is something that decades of lifestyle-only interventions have failed to achieve. Yet, despite this promise, access in Australia remains confined to those who can pay privately.
Obesity medicines, the limits of the PBS, and the test of policy imagination
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