{"id":891618,"date":"2026-02-11T05:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/california-ends-medicaid-coverage-of-weight-loss-drugs-despite-trumprx-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:12:21","slug":"california-ends-medicaid-coverage-of-weight-loss-drugs-despite-trumprx-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/california-ends-medicaid-coverage-of-weight-loss-drugs-despite-trumprx-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"California Ends Medicaid Coverage of Weight Loss Drugs Despite TrumpRx Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low-income Californians who use Wegovy and similar medications for weight loss lost their coverage at the start of the new year, with officials advising diet and exercise instead. California and other states say the drugs are too costly, even as the Trump administration announces plans to lower prices&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/california-medicaid-medi-cal-glp1-weight-loss-drugs-ends-coverage-cost\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Don Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-income Californians who use Wegovy and similar medications for weight loss lost their coverage at the start of the new year, with officials advising diet and exercise instead. California and other states say the drugs are too costly, even as the Trump administration announces plans to lower prices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[921,41274,192],"tags":[5229,17691],"class_list":{"0":"post-891618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"category-medicaid","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-medicaid"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}