NC Residents, Health Advocates, and Media– Take Notice
Help Us Maintain NC Medicaid Coverage for Obesity Medications!
📌 What’s happening?
Currently, a budget bill is making its way through the North Carolina General Assembly that would eliminate Medicaid coverage for obesity medications.
📉 What this means:
This isn’t about cosmetic weight loss— it’s about treating obesity as a serious medical disease. These medications help manage chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and kidney failure, and they're proven to reduce heart attacks, strokes, and long-term healthcare costs.
🧠 Why it matters:
Over 1 in 3 North Carolinians live with obesity.
These medications are standard of care— not luxury drugs.
Cutting coverage will hit low-income residents the hardest, worsening health disparities.
Studies show that GLP-1 therapies can lead to a >40% reduction in major cardiac events and 7% lower medical costs by year two (AON Study, 2025).
🔗 Link to Article:
https://lnkd.in/ebSRBV7C
🏛️ CALL TO ACTION
💬 NC Residents: Email or call your House and Senate representatives and tell them to protect Medicaid access to anti-obesity care.
📄 Find your NC House Member here:
👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/ey3gKsKY
📄 Find your NC Senate Health Care Committee Member here:
👉🏻 Health Care Senate Standing Committee - North Carolina General Assembly
📣 MEDIA, PLEASE SHARE:
Help inform the public before it’s too late. This issue affects real families, healthcare workers, and our state’s future health costs.
📢 Contact:
North Carolina Obesity Society
📧 info@ncobesitysociety.org
🌐 ncobesitysociety.org
#NCMedicaid #GLP1 #NCHealth #ObesityCare #ProtectMedicaid #NorthCarolina #PublicHealth
GLP-1s can help employers lower medical costs in 2 years, new study finds
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Dr. Stephanie Page, board member of NC Obesity Society
Shares powerful insights from years of patient care – and why continued Medicaid coverage for GLP-1 medications is essential for health equity and long-term savings.
📍 Over 600,000 North Carolinians rely on Medicaid. Cutting access to proven obesity treatments would be devastating – especially in rural and underserved communities.
📖 Read her compelling op-ed and learn why this isn’t just a policy decision – it’s a matter of public health, fairness, and compassion
Thursday, July 24th @ 6 PM
Rooster's
380 Knollwood Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
To RSVP, please email VQBR@novonordisk.com by Friday, July 18