At the federal level, the Trump administration decided not to proceed with a Biden administration proposal to allow Medicare and require Medicaid to cover obesity drugs but recently launched their own obesity drug coverage initiatives to reduce costs and increase access (see Box 1)
Diabetes Management Capabilities Both medications show effectiveness in managing type 2 diabetes, though their approval statuses differ significantly
The popularity of these drugs has surged in the past few years to treat obesity when they were originally used to treat diabetes
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GI side effects are extremely common
The inhibitory effect is presumably mediated indirectly through somatostatin secretion, but a direct effect cannot be completely excluded