I don’t feel like being nice either fitz. The Veterans Administration just released their new treatment guidelines and they include…

genotype 1 cirrhotic…..ledipasvir/sofosbuvir + ribavirin (600 mg/day and increase by 200 mg/day every 2 weeks only as tolerated) x 12 weeks.

Genotype 3 naive …ledipasvir/sofosbuvir + ribavirin x 12 weeks
Treatment experienced, non cirrhotic….ledipasvir/sofosbuvir + ribavirin x 12 weeks
For cirrhotics….Daclatasvir + sofosbuvir + ribavirin x 12 weeks

Bastards

Hi Price & Fitz,

Reading your posts made me think that in overall it is a matter of legitimacy vs legality.
From the perspective of HCV patients, the prices from Gilead are illegitim (not alligned with human values or health principles) because only few people can access the medication. From the perspective of investors…. It is another story. But if the high prices have been legally established, that’s another question, to which is not so easy to answer. What I am convinced however, is that Gilead knows its issue with the “not legitimate” prices and is making efforts to make the public believe that practicing high prices is justified and legitimate. That might explain why so much advertising in US.
The news that Gilead is a kind of “evil pricer” is spreading already and will continue to spread. But it is not only Gilead the “evil pricer”, rather also the other companies who have the power to erradicate Hep C with their drugs , but continue to maintain high prices.

Perhaphs they have the legal means to establish whatever price they want, but we also have the legitimacy to advocate, keeping an eye open to the legal aspects, about the cheaper and effective generic HCV drugs.

Cheers,
RHF

Hey cheese, you’ve just started treatment

That’s awesome, safe travels and see you on the other side

Yep, The US laws and the people that make them are the problem. Gilead is a publicly traded company and can charge whatever it wants. If Congress passed a “price-gouging” law (LMAO….pass a law!…, people would be howling about big government and socialized medicine…… I’m sure Gilead’s board of directors had their marketing division analyze exactly how much they could charge before reaching the point of diminishing returns. They really don’t give a rat’s ass about 53.5 dead Americans daily and Congress can’t get any campaign funding trying to help a bunch of people who got themselves infected being social deviants….Our medicinal patent system needs an overhaul, maybe like copyrights in the music business: someone used your song in a movie, you get royalties. If it becomes a blockbuster, you get a lot more royalties.
Educating people about the availabilty of quality generics is the card that will call Gilead’s bluff. I went public two years ago in the statewide newspaper about insurance coverage denials for outrageously priced HCV medications. I told everyone at work in the “at risk” age group about the CDC’s testing recommendations.
Now, I’m telling whoever will listen about several really good options people have in the US to legally access perfect generic copies of these highly effective DAAs that are affordable. Hell, I would put a sign in my front yard saying “$900 Generic Harvoni Cured Me of Hep C!” if it would do any good and I’m not a sign or bumper sticker person….
So, start an informational website, ask the “good doctors”, those who monitored your generic tx, to tell others. Write a million letters to those turds in Washington and tell them to start doing something besides arguing and kissing rich asses.
Most people in the US just won’t take medicine imported from Asia without a doctor telling them its safe. Some, like me and many others here, simply couldn’t tolerate being sick anymore-physically and/or emotionally-and decided to do something about it. If the Indians hadn’t delayed the availability of ledipasvir, I would have gone to India. One way or another, this crap was going to be gone. But generics and importation came along and is still here.
Gilead and the Government.
Now that’s a pair to draw to…..
We are an underground movement with a maligned, misunderstood disease promoting a gray market……
Let’s be about it, people!
Open some eyes!
m

I really like you

Friends images seem to be loading poorly from my end for a few days this might not have loaded clearly the screenshots are simply part of the tx table
Regards
Ariel