Hi Jeff and congratulations on your result. Are you in the US?

Hi Jeff and welcome!
I paid $10.00 for 8 weeks of Harvoni and about $2000 in co pays for tests, scans and procedures needed to document my EHMs. My insurer still only voluntarily covers people on the transplant list. That company insures the health of every Arkansas state employee and public school teacher. People can bitch and moan about Obama Care all they want. The “independent external review” provision of the PAF is how I got my coverage. I am happy about forcing my insurance company to do their job. I have paid them, on average, $300.00 a month for almost 30 years. When I needed their help, they forced me to fight for two years to get the what was rightfully mine. That’s the part I hate. The money, $2000……. you can get more of that and you can’t take it with you.
The time is different….The two miserable, frustrating, anger-filled years of my life I paid for it are gone.
That’s why I do what I do. If I can help ONE person avoid that Hell, I will sleep better at night.
I am sleeping really nicely these days.

Now for the “flip” side: When insurers, both public and private, have to pay Gilead and others the outrageous prices they charge, that money will be recouped through higher taxes and premiums. Somebody has to foot the bill. So, we got well and the expense of our tx will be shared among the masses so Gilead can reap it’s ill gotten gains. If insurers would cover generic tx, they would be out $560.00 instead of $56,000.00.
Very happy for you.
Mike

No not at all

Yes, this is great info!

If you can get your insurance to approve Harvoni or Sovaldi, Gilead offers a co-pay coupon through their ‘Support Path’ program so that your co-pay is only $5 a month

Google Gilead Support Path for info.

Hi Gaj,

This appears to only be for patients in USA, or US territories. I actually signed up for this, but insurance never approved me. Anyone else in another country should contact Gilead directly. There may be other help available similar to this in other countries

Hi splitdog,
I don’t believe this forum should be excluding people on the basis of how they sourced their medications, after all the HCV didn’t discriminate when it infected us.

Curing this disease is what we all want to do and generics are a fantastic and often affordable means of doing so for those of us thoughout the world who haven’t been able to access the originals but I think it’s great that Jeff has managed to source meds cheaply by whatever means in the US and hopefully he can provide more input on how he was able to successfully do that without difficulty so others can learn from it.

No. As I understand, a large part of the medication sourced here is produced under a licence agreement with Gilead, so many people here are in fact using legitimate Gilead medicine at reduced prices. I believe the Chinese products are still being made outside any legitimate agreements, but for some reason, Gilead seems to have dropped the ball there. Hopefully they will act more rationally and in all of our interests with the next game-changing drugs they develop.