<p>If I needed this drug, I would fight like hell to get it. Apparently, the cocktail one had to take before the arrival of this drug had very nasty side effects and was less than 50% successful.</p>
<p><a href=“Medicaid plans slow to cover $84,000-per-patient hepatitis C regimen | ThinkAdvisor”>Medicaid plans slow to cover $84,000-per-patient hepatitis C regimen | ThinkAdvisor;
<p>Says PA is paying 70k for the cycle- </p>
<p>Read the same GP, but also that the cocktail needed with Solvadi runs it up to 100k.
So where do we point fingers? Remember, there has been a lot of finger pointing in one direction, over 11k posts.</p>
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<p>We need most favored nation. Let the Indians have it for $1250, but we shouldn’t have to pay more then the English. </p>
<p>I played left wing when I played on coed teams, and defense when I played on women’s teams. And I was bad, quite bad. </p>
<p>GP, I agree with you that rich people should pay higher Medicare premiums. That’s not going to be nearly enough to solve Medicare’s cost woes, though. Not enough rich people.</p>
<p>I love the mostly anonymity. So you played as a woman?</p>
<p>I do everything as a woman. No choice. (I was looking for the perfect emoticon to use on that sentence, but I can’t find one. Is there a shrugging emoticon?)</p>
<p>You could have Obamacare pay for a sex change operation. :)</p>
<p>I would fight for this drug too. And Because I would fight for this drug, and GP would fight for this drug, I assume that quite a few people want this drug. It is the paying that gets difficult. (I think a few of us can afford this drug). </p>
<p>I mean, I do like that we can’t even tell a female vs male perspectives based on posts, unless some element is revealed. Sorry, there was no graceful way to ask that. No graceful way to even excuse myself. Since this comes up, I thought GP spoke of a DH-?<br>
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<p>No thanks, GP. I’m happy the way I am. </p>
<p>Does insurance pay for sex change operations?</p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, CF, but isn’t a large part of health care reform (community rating and subsidization) Gilead’s treatment of India writ large?</p>
<p>And if you cant afford this drug, and you are leaning right, you are leaning in the wrong direction. :)</p>
<p>I am looking forward to paying $300 a month in premiums in future dollars. So… I want medicare. I have conservative friends in good financial shape who are on medicare and they love medicare. ;)</p>
<p>Thess old farts all pay less than I do for health care. A lot leas. I want a turn. Some good has to come from getting old. :)</p>
<p>Of the people who need the drug, though, how many could write a check to pay for it?</p>
<p>Nope LF, I have the XY chromosones.</p>
<p>Also I think Gilead’s monopoly on Hep C drugs will be short-lived. I read that there were a few more drugs coming along in the pipeline.</p>
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<p>Could you possibly explain this more? I’m not sure how price discrimination is the same as community rating. I’m guessing that $1250 is roughly the manufacturing cost of the drug, but I don’t know what you mean by this comment.</p>
<p>You could have XY and still have a dear husband, GP. We live in California, not some place like Alabama.</p>
<p>Theoretically, once the patent expires within 7 years, the price should come down dramatically.</p>
<p>How far away are they from creating new livers?</p>
<p>1250 is about 84k in Indian.</p>
<p>Don’t want to get political, but conservative rich people who want to pay very low Medicare premiums are hypocrites.</p>