International health insurance and GLP-1 — anyone have experience?

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.

anders_CPH said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.

anders_CPH said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.

One concrete data point for the thread. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. Carry on.