Benedic Ippolito on the Once and Future Costs of Anti-Obesity Drugs

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Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Benedic Ippolito of American Enterprise Institute about his recent paper exploring how expanding Medicare coverage of anti-obesity medicines could result in increased annual spending.

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