Medicare is prohibited from covering weight-loss drugs — Ozempic could change that

• Medicare is prohibited from covering new weight-loss medications like Ozempic. 
• Lawmakers are looking for ways to make it less expensive for the drugs to get covered. 
• Getting Medicare coverage could lead to other insurers also covering the medications. 

Drugmakers and advocates are pushing for Medicare to cover a group of new weight-loss medications including Ozempic.