News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in the US. Parent comment

Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by laurentiurad on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:18AM (#46588080)
you can just order them to your home on any of the websites selling GLP-1. Stop the propaganda inferring that the public healthcare is bad and doesn't allow people to get their medicine.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by blell on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:40AM (#46588352)
In Spain you can't. You need to be authorised by a doctor to buy those drugs.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by bigfishrunning on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:33AM (#46589048)
This is also true in the US -- these are prescription drugs.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by elictronic on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:14PM (#46591359)
This is not exactly correct. The fda approved named items require a prescription. However from the shortage years ago compounding pharmacies were allowed to sell alternative versions. Basically they add a B vitamin to the normal drug and boom non prescription GLP1.

With this one simple trick Denmarks GDP goes down by multiple % points.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in... by cthalupa on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @02:58AM (#46598360)
> non prescription GLP1.

Compounding a drug doesn't suddenly make it non-prescription. You still need one for them.

It just lets you buy stuff where the raw API is made in China by some random pharma lab instead of from Novo or Lilly.

[ Parent | on HN ]