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Why We Launched the Petition to Protect GLP-1 Access

Original posted at obesity.news/ on Dec 10, 2025


When the SAFE Drugs Act surfaced today, it became immediately clear that the people most affected by the bill’s potential passage were the ones least involved in the conversation. The language reads like policy drafted in a vacuum. It focuses on regulating compounding without acknowledging why patients needed compounded GLP-1 medications in the first place. It does not account for the insurance denials, shortages, costs, or personalized needs that pushed millions of people toward the only pathway that was available to them.


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So we launched a petition to make sure patients are not written out of this story.


This is not about fighting for a loophole. This is not about protecting any industry. This is about preventing a policy decision from cutting off treatment for people who have no alternatives waiting on the other side. For many in our community, compounded GLP-1 medication has been the only stable and affordable option when the system fell short. The SAFE Drugs Act limits that option long before supply, coverage, and affordability are ready to carry the load.


Lawmakers need to hear from the people living with the consequences.


We set a goal of 50,000 signatures because that is the threshold where a petition stops being a comment and becomes a signal. At that scale, it gets noticed. It gets forwarded. It gets read in committee rooms where decisions are made. It puts patients back into a conversation that has been happening without them.


If you have been denied coverage, if you have been priced out, if you have depended on telehealth when local access collapsed, or if you know someone who is trying to hold on to their health in a system that makes it harder than it should be, add your name. Share it. Pass it to someone who needs the link. Every signature is another voice saying that safety and access must move together, not in opposite directions.


🚨🚨🚨Here is the petition:



If we reach 50,000 signatures, we will make sure this community is not ignored.


Patients deserve better. This is how we make sure they are heard.


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