Medicare will start covering weight-loss drugs on July 1 for the first time. Here’s what you need to know

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Millions of Medicare enrollees will gain their first-ever coverage for drugs for weight loss under a temporary pilot program that launches July 1. Mary Abrahamson hopes to be one of them. The rural Washington resident was tired of carrying extra weight on her 5-foot-3-inch frame. It made it harder