How one state is trying to make weight loss drugs cheaper

Dale Folwell says North Carolina is “under siege” by drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. The North Carolina treasurer said the sky-high costs of popular weight loss drugs — Wegovy and Saxenda, from Novo Nordisk, and Zepbound, from Eli Lilly — have financially strained the state’s health insurance plan for its roughly 700,000 teachers, state employees and retirees, forcing it to stop providing coverage for the drugs earlier this year. According to the state treasurer’s office, last year, North Carolina paid for weight loss drugs for almost 25,000 state employees,...