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Bernie Sanders Calls On Novo Nordisk To Lower Cost Of Ozempic And Wegovy
By Sara Dorn
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., demanded Novo Nordisk, the Danish drug company that manufactures the wildly popular Ozempic and Wegovy weight loss drugs, lower the list price of the drugs, warning the “outrageously high price has the potential to bankrupt Medicare, the American people and our entire health care system.”
Sanders, who chairs the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, called on the company to lower the list price of Ozempic and Wegovy to “no more than what they charge for this drug in Canada,” in a statement Wednesday following the release of a new study on the costs of the drug by researchers at Yale.
Ozempic costs about $300 per month out-of-pocket in Canada, compared to about $1,000 in the U.S.
Bernie Sanders Calls On Novo Nordisk To Lower Cost Of Ozempic And Wegovy (msn.com)
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