His position is that lifestyle changes should be the first line against obesity, before resorting to GLPs. Hardly uncommon. Even among physicians. The wrong approach imo, as we don't require those with high BP or diabetes try and (almost certainly) fail "self management" before we intervene with effective medication.
Musk and others have already grasped the immense savings these drugs will provide long term. I'm certain Trump will resume his insistence on the current model that requires Americans to bear the lion share of drug development costs while the rest of the world enjoys lower costs for the meds we subsidize for them.
There's already a law preventing Medicare from covering weight loss treatments because the "use your willpower" nonsense has been the common belief until very recently.
So what you're fearmongering about was the prevailing attitude of the outgoing crop of politicians more than the incoming ones.
You'd think leftists would be thrilled with the way he's going head on against garbage food companies and many of pharma's shittier practices, but anything attached to Trump requires an immediate opposite position to be taken.
Waiting for the "I Stand With Big Pharma" and "Corporate Megafood Has a Home Here" signs to appear in their yards.