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My sister, who lives in Florida, will die without this medication. The alternative medication would destroy her damaged liver and require a liver transplant which has a line long enough to ensure those on it don't survive before getting it.Months before Gilead Sciences breakthrough hepatitis C treatment hit the market, Oregon Medicaid official Tom Burns started worrying about how the state could afford to cover every enrollee infected with the disease. He figured the cost might even reach $36,000 per patient.
Then the price for the drug was released last December: $84,000 for a 12-week treatment course.
At that price, the state would have to spend $360 million to provide its Medicaid beneficiaries with the drug called Sovaldi, just slightly less than the $377 million the Oregon Medicaid program spent on all prescription drugs for about 600,000 members in 2013. It potentially would be a backbreaker.
Faced with those steep costs, Oregon and several other states are looking to limit who has access to the drug that nearly everyone acknowledges is a revolutionary treatment for the disease affecting more than 3 million Americans.
My sister, who lives in Florida, will die without this medication. The alternative medication would destroy her damaged liver and require a liver transplant which has a line long enough to ensure those on it don't survive before getting it.Months before Gilead Sciences breakthrough hepatitis C treatment hit the market, Oregon Medicaid official Tom Burns started worrying about how the state could afford to cover every enrollee infected with the disease. He figured the cost might even reach $36,000 per patient.
Then the price for the drug was released last December: $84,000 for a 12-week treatment course.
At that price, the state would have to spend $360 million to provide its Medicaid beneficiaries with the drug called Sovaldi, just slightly less than the $377 million the Oregon Medicaid program spent on all prescription drugs for about 600,000 members in 2013. It potentially would be a backbreaker.
Faced with those steep costs, Oregon and several other states are looking to limit who has access to the drug that nearly everyone acknowledges is a revolutionary treatment for the disease affecting more than 3 million Americans.
They have no choice but to go bankrupt or form death panels to choose who will and who won't get this drug.
My sister, who lives in Florida, will die without this medication. The alternative medication would destroy her damaged liver and require a liver transplant which has a line long enough to ensure those on it don't survive before getting it.Months before Gilead Sciences breakthrough hepatitis C treatment hit the market, Oregon Medicaid official Tom Burns started worrying about how the state could afford to cover every enrollee infected with the disease. He figured the cost might even reach $36,000 per patient.
Then the price for the drug was released last December: $84,000 for a 12-week treatment course.
At that price, the state would have to spend $360 million to provide its Medicaid beneficiaries with the drug called Sovaldi, just slightly less than the $377 million the Oregon Medicaid program spent on all prescription drugs for about 600,000 members in 2013. It potentially would be a backbreaker.
Faced with those steep costs, Oregon and several other states are looking to limit who has access to the drug that nearly everyone acknowledges is a revolutionary treatment for the disease affecting more than 3 million Americans.
They have no choice but to go bankrupt or form death panels to choose who will and who won't get this drug.
Neither Medicaid, Medicare, or the majority of insurance companies cover experimental treatments.
Sorry about your sister. Methinks Gov Scott has more to do with her treatment that anything else.
My sister, who lives in Florida, will die without this medication. The alternative medication would destroy her damaged liver and require a liver transplant which has a line long enough to ensure those on it don't survive before getting it.
They have no choice but to go bankrupt or form death panels to choose who will and who won't get this drug.
Neither Medicaid, Medicare, or the majority of insurance companies cover experimental treatments.
Sorry about your sister. Methinks Gov Scott has more to do with her treatment that anything else.
It isn't experimental anymore.
Neither Medicaid, Medicare, or the majority of insurance companies cover experimental treatments.
Sorry about your sister. Methinks Gov Scott has more to do with her treatment that anything else.
It isn't experimental anymore.
To the state it is. Luckily for your sister, the federal government has supplied funds for it, if she has healthcare.
Health News Florida
Of course, if you talked her out of signing up for Obamacare you're SOL.
Months before Gilead Sciences breakthrough hepatitis C treatment hit the market, Oregon Medicaid official Tom Burns started worrying about how the state could afford to cover every enrollee infected with the disease. He figured the cost might even reach $36,000 per patient.
Then the price for the drug was released last December: $84,000 for a 12-week treatment course.
At that price, the state would have to spend $360 million to provide its Medicaid beneficiaries with the drug called Sovaldi, just slightly less than the $377 million the Oregon Medicaid program spent on all prescription drugs for about 600,000 members in 2013. It potentially would be a backbreaker.
Faced with those steep costs, Oregon and several other states are looking to limit who has access to the drug that nearly everyone acknowledges is a revolutionary treatment for the disease affecting more than 3 million Americans.
My sister, who lives in Florida, will die without this medication. The alternative medication would destroy her damaged liver and require a liver transplant which has a line long enough to ensure those on it don't survive before getting it.
They have no choice but to go bankrupt or form death panels to choose who will and who won't get this drug.
Slyhunter said:Nobody cares about the death panels?
It isn't experimental anymore.
To the state it is. Luckily for your sister, the federal government has supplied funds for it, if she has healthcare.
Health News Florida
Of course, if you talked her out of signing up for Obamacare you're SOL.
Florida is run by Rick "I was NOT INDICTED!" Scott, his company defrauded Medicare & was fined 1.7 BILLION, he knows how to PROFIT, medical care isn't his "priority".
Neither Medicaid, Medicare, or the majority of insurance companies cover experimental treatments.
Sorry about your sister. Methinks Gov Scott has more to do with her treatment that anything else.
It isn't experimental anymore.
To the state it is. Luckily for your sister, the federal government has supplied funds for it, if she has healthcare.
Health News Florida
Of course, if you talked her out of signing up for Obamacare you're SOL.
She hasn't opt out of anything, but she hasn't signed up for obamacare either. What good is insurance if no doctor will take it. She's having a problem finding a doctor that will take her medicaid. Her previous doctor dumped her for "non-compliance" because she didn't lose weight. Food Stamps don't pay for fresh fruit and vegetables, they pay for pasta and potatoes, rice and beans.Neither Medicaid, Medicare, or the majority of insurance companies cover experimental treatments.
Sorry about your sister. Methinks Gov Scott has more to do with her treatment that anything else.
It isn't experimental anymore.
To the state it is. Luckily for your sister, the federal government has supplied funds for it, if she has healthcare.
Health News Florida
Of course, if you talked her out of signing up for Obamacare you're SOL.
Not only that -- a very large portion of Obama's Central Americans that he's bringing in have positive TB skin tests. Wait until resistent TB hits the HIV population.
Local hospitals to pay millions in Medicare fraud settlement | HeraldTribune.com
He was never under investigation. 4 mid level executives from several facilities were, in a co. with 343 hospitals and 700 surgery centers, 285,000 employees.
Two of those 4 were acquitted and the other 2 had their convictions overturned. And the fine was $95 MILLION, NOT 1.7 billion. And lo and behold! That same co. he left in 1997 was charged again in 2013. See link above.
And Scott has been a good governor.
To the state it is. Luckily for your sister, the federal government has supplied funds for it, if she has healthcare.
Health News Florida
Of course, if you talked her out of signing up for Obamacare you're SOL.
Florida is run by Rick "I was NOT INDICTED!" Scott, his company defrauded Medicare & was fined 1.7 BILLION, he knows how to PROFIT, medical care isn't his "priority".
Sovaldi costs about $130 to manufacture, reinforcing how outrageous its pricing is. Gilead claims that the pricing reflects the value of Sovaldi and it deserves a premium because of downstream health savings. Following that logic, all antibiotics have been vastly underpriced since the introduction of penicillin some 60 years ago.
Did a little research
Capitalism at ITS WORST
And taking ADVANTAGE of Americans and other wealthy country's citizens...
the same regiment of 84 pills
IS ONLY $900 in Egypt!!! $90,000 in the USA, $55,000 in Canada
that's just bull crud if there ever was bull crud
It cost them near nothing to develop the drug....
The reason it is priced the way it is,
is because the PHARMA company took the average cost of treating a patient with life long drugs, the cost of life long complications from having the disease, the lifelong cost of all the visits the person with the disease would pay in doctor visits, the cost of kidney or liver failure treatments and added that all together, to come up with the price of what they were going to charge for their drug treatment.
HOLY moly, mother of goodness!!!!!!!!! or just simply, holy crap!
THUS THEIR LOGIC TO PRICING THE DRUG AT $84-90K in the USA.
Sovaldi costs about $130 to manufacture, reinforcing how outrageous its pricing is. Gilead claims that the pricing reflects the value of Sovaldi and it deserves a premium because of downstream health savings. Following that logic, all antibiotics have been vastly underpriced since the introduction of penicillin some 60 years ago.
The Sovaldi Tax: Gilead Can't Justify The Price It's Asking For Hepatitis C Therapy - Forbes
Food Stamps don't pay for fresh fruit and vegetables, they pay for pasta and potatoes, rice and beans.
Did a little research
Capitalism at ITS WORST
And taking ADVANTAGE of Americans and other wealthy country's citizens...
the same regiment of 84 pills
IS ONLY $900 in Egypt!!! $90,000 in the USA, $55,000 in Canada
that's just bull crud if there ever was bull crud
It cost them near nothing to develop the drug....
The reason it is priced the way it is,
is because the PHARMA company took the average cost of treating a patient with life long drugs, the cost of life long complications from having the disease, the lifelong cost of all the visits the person with the disease would pay in doctor visits, the cost of kidney or liver failure treatments and added that all together, to come up with the price of what they were going to charge for their drug treatment.
HOLY moly, mother of goodness!!!!!!!!! or just simply, holy crap!
THUS THEIR LOGIC TO PRICING THE DRUG AT $84-90K in the USA.
Sovaldi costs about $130 to manufacture, reinforcing how outrageous its pricing is. Gilead claims that the pricing reflects the value of Sovaldi and it deserves a premium because of downstream health savings. Following that logic, all antibiotics have been vastly underpriced since the introduction of penicillin some 60 years ago.
The Sovaldi Tax: Gilead Can't Justify The Price It's Asking For Hepatitis C Therapy - Forbes
Did your sister stopped her habits that allowed her to get Hep "C"?
