Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs NYT | Top Stories By: Margot Sanger-Katz and Rebecca Robbins 5 April 2025 at 06:32 Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid. © M. Scott Brauer for The New York TimesA Biden proposal to expand coverage of the popular weight-loss drugs would have cost billions of dollars under Medicare and Medicaid.