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Sydney Lupkin

Decades-old law limits access to Wegovy for Medicaid beneficiaries

Medicaid plans aren't required to cover Wegovy for weight loss and obesity, but some do and others are considering adding it for those uses. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Della McCullough has been struggling with her weight since she was 11, when she remembers her mother telling her she was "big boned." Now 53, she says she's tried supplements, diet and exercise — even an all-fruit diet once. None of them worked.

"Still, I'm not doing well," says McCullough, a semiretired school bus driver in Colorado. "I have done nutrition counseling, trauma counseling, meditation, positive affirmation therapy, and still I am almost 300 pounds again and sad and unhappy."

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