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Ozempic purchases happen to also be correlated with rising prices, though.
Presumably they're looking at comparable shoppers before and after one starts Ozempic during the same time period. Or are you implying people are starting Ozempic to avoid buying food?
I read a recent article that said it cost $1,000/mo. So doubtful this would be a good strategy to save money.
Take a step back: Do you actually believe this? Really? Really? It just reads like it’s fake.
The data is simply not believable. It is designed to get headlines and focus on Ozempic to get people to buy it.
This is propaganda. Planted and designed by pharm industry.
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Come on now. Can’t? Really? Maaaybe it’s against some law or privacy policy or mandatory annual training. But do you honestly believe companies follow laws and policies if they think they can get away with not? And even if you can ignore that corporations are regularly -publicly- wrist-slapped for failings in those areas and still believe they are virtuous, privacy-respecting, law-abiding entities (rofl) … are you re…
I don't think you've worked in the medical industry, or you'd know just how big of a deal HIPAA is.
I think HIPAA is the sort of thing where if you hear about it then it's taken seriously, but the overwhelming number of violations are just ignored and you never hear about them. I'd like to be wrong but unfortunately that's the information I've been fed by people more knowledgeable than me.
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>debit card ending in 6969 purchased Ozempic at pharmacy >debit card ending in 6969 purchased $200 of food, 5% less than they did last month They don't have to know anything about the specific person to correlate data they likely already have in their POS system.
HIPAA violation
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It’s also covered for actual obese as well.
That's new under Wegovy
Wegovy is not new, it was approved by the FDA for weight loss in 2021. And Ozempic was used off label for weight loss for many years before then.
So Ozempic is approved for use by the obese for weight loss.