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Weight loss jabs for unemployed not dystopian, says Wes Streeting (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has dismissed suggestions that plans to provide weight loss jabs to unemployed people with obesity are "dystopian".

The UK government is partnering with pharmaceutical giant Lilly who are running a five-year trial in Greater Manchester to test if the weight-loss drug Mounjaro can help get more people back to work and prevent obesity-related diseases to ease the strain on the NHS in England.

The announcement prompted a backlash, with accusations that the government was stigmatising unemployed individuals and reducing people to their economic value.

Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Streeting said the jabs were part of a broader healthcare plan, adding that he was "not interested in some dystopian future where I involuntarily jab unemployed people who are overweight".

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[–] Eximius@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

ITT: Lots of Americans getting insulted by the fact that obesity brings health problems, and the fact that being obese is a self-destructive choice.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey don't narrow it to just Americans, we're not even the fattest country anymore I don't think

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, looked it up just now; apparently the US is only #15, after a bunch of Pacific islands, and a couple others

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