“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg accused Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of fat shaming heavyset Americans by encouraging healthy lifestyle choices over weight-loss drugs during a Thursday segment.
Kennedy has repeatedly accused the medical industry of prescribing medications rather than encouraging good lifestyle choices, telling CNBC’s Jim Cramer Thursday that Americans should first rely on healthy lifestyle choices and nutritious diets before being prescribed GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. Goldberg argued that Kennedy’s encouragement for healthy lifestyle choices is “setting folks up for shame and said she relied on medication to lose weight.
“This isn’t just about food,” Goldberg said. “This is sometimes — people are born genetically larger. But I want to say this to [Kennedy], because you’re setting folks up for shame … Maybe you don’t know you’re doing it, I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. I’m gonna say you don’t know, you don’t realize what you do to people when you say stuff like that because it doesn’t work for everybody and I’m gonna show you sir, because I weight close to 300 [pounds] less than 2 years ago, and without the Mounjaro, this would not have happened.”
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After showing off her weight-loss, Goldberg said medications can prevent cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who will co-lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), argued in an X post Wednesday that lowering the costs of “GLP inhibitors” would “improve the health, lifespan and quality of life” of Americans. Medicare is not currently allowed to cover medications for the purpose of weight-loss alone, but will cover GLP-1 drugs for patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to ABC News.
Musk’s post came in response to the ongoing discourse about the current healthcare system following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. His alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione, wrote a three-paged document lamenting UnitedHealthcare and other corporations for its alleged “abuse” of Americans to make “immense profit,” according to a published copy of the note.
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