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          WASHINGTON — Drugmakers are doing everything to tap the bottomless well of demand for new obesity drugs, and they might get some government help. The agency that regulates Obamacare insurance is considering a technical change that would require insurers to cover obesity drugs in a market of more than 20 million Americans.
          Weight loss drugs are a blessing for patients, a boon for drugmakers, and a potentially huge expense for insurers and taxpayers. Insurers have been slow to cover the drugs, called GLP-1 agonists, and without insurance, it costs upward of ​​$16,000 annually for a drug that must be taken indefinitely.
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