As recently as the onset of COVID-19 four years ago, you probably didn’t know what a glucagon-like peptide 1 agonist, or GLP-1 drug, was. But this class of medications, which help people with Type 2 diabetes and obesity lower their blood sugar and promote weight loss, is now a household name.
“It’s everywhere,” Dr. Razia Hashmi, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) vice president of clinical affairs, said Tuesday during a town hall at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in Dana Point, Calif. “It’s part of our conversation. It’s on social media, your family’s talking about it, we’re talking about it in the boardroom, we’re talking about it in the break room. There is, obviously, a lot of excitement about it—the adoption’s been exponential—but there is so much more to learn.”
