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If passed, The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act would increase Medicare beneficiaries’ options for combating obesity by giving them access to prescription weight-management medication. Enter your address below to send a message directly to your Senators and Member of Congress urging them to support this critical legislation.

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Obesity is associated with more than 90 other chronic conditions. When coupled with these chronic conditions, obesity costs American taxpayers more than $200 billion every year in medical costs.

Medicare doesn’t cover needed interventions by highly trained health care professionals or FDA-approved prescription weight-management medications that can, as part of a comprehensive treatment approach, help combat the obesity crisis in America and make seniors healthier.

More than 40 percent of the Medicare population suffers from obesity, yet Medicare Part D plans are prohibited from covering the new, FDA-approved weight management drugs. If they were covered by Medicare Part D, the United States could save $11.4 BILLION A YEAR in healthcare costs.

Most Americans don’t even realize that they have obesity, and not knowing this can lead to serious untreated medical problems.