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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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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where are the insulted Americans? I see only a few comments and no one seems offended to me.

Is this a fediverse thing where I'm not seeing all the comments or are you just making shit up to be self righteous about?

I've got a sneaking suspicion that it's the second one.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago

Is the “insulted American” in the room with us now?