PP Episode 9: Is Obesity Over? | Big Pharma's Fat Profits Come At A Cost

The Ben and Emil Show

Ben and Emil

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The obesity market is big business. The makers of so-called "miracle" obesity and diabetes treatments like Mounjaro and Ozempic stand to make hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars over the next decade if they're further approved by the FDA and widely prescribed. Investors are already picking the winners as Eli Lilly has quickly become the most valuable healthcare company at a whopping $500 billion dollars. Will congress get on board and approve these treatments under Medicare? Will private insurance cover them? How will these drugs affect other industries like fast food? And how safe are they? Plus, we delve into the dirty details of Dave Portnoy and Barstool getting offloaded by Penn Gaming, which pisses Ben off. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, wait right off the bat.
0:04.7	What? Come down, you're scaring me. What? I want to tell the people about...
0:08.4	Uh oh. The London show. Oh, London Bridge is falling down.
0:13.0	London Bridge is fine.
0:15.0	But...
0:16.0	Tiny Bridge, by the way.
0:18.0	Yeah, build a bigger bridge.
0:20.0	They make such a big deal out of it.
0:22.0	It's just like, oh, we's like a little bit from here to here,
0:26.0	boom done. Okay, focus. Okay.
0:28.0	Okay. What about London?
0:31.0	London show. We're about, I think we're about like 90% sold out so if you
0:36.4	want to go get your ticket now also by the time this comes out I don't know how many
0:40.9	tickets will be left we'll be going to be blasting out on social media.
0:45.6	So yeah, I don't know if you see this.
0:47.3	Go get your ticket.
0:49.4	Yep, September 4th at Leicester.
0:51.3	Leicester Square Theater.
0:53.4	The link will be in the description.
0:55.3	And if you haven't been following us on social media, that's where we've been
0:58.4	posting about the thing.
1:00.2	So we'll also post the link below here you want to come see us.
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