In the 90's the US govt. entered NAFTA. The Chinese govt. slept in Lincoln's bedroom. Corporations began outsourcing our manufacturing base as never before. Our blue, and white collar jobs went away, and the multi national corporations andtheir public sector lap-dogs never looked back.
In the early 2000's we (the US), continued outsourcing jobs, borrowed money from the rest of the world, and especially the Chinese, to pay for nation building (theirs not ours), and social programs we could no longer afford - because the US manufacturing tax base, the powerhouse that built the machinery that won WWII, and then spawned the economic miracle to beat all economic miracles, was no longer there. We had outsourced it. It was gone, and it wasn't coming back.
While all but the wealthiest among us learned to get by with what was left, the multi-national corporations made money hand over fist, and speculated with easy money, printed not earned, until in 2007- 2008, when the bubble finally burst, and the economy came crashing down.
The outsourcing continued, the trade deficits skyrocketed, one regime's ineptness and corruption was traded for another's, we printed money to bail out Wall Street and the multinationals, the borrowing accelerated, and the US national debt ballooned from 10.6 Trillion, to almost 20 Trillion dollars.
Now we are paying $94,000 for a course of HCV treatment that costs $100 to manufacture, and we're mortgaging our children's future to pay for it.
How stupid are we?
Shunning corporate branded HCV medications for generics isn't just the intelligent alternative, its a civic duty.
Failed Interferon 96', G1a, VL = 9 - 5.5 Million, F3/A3, AST 111, ALT 190, Generic DAA treatment Sof/Led (Mylan - India MYHEP LVIR) - 8 June, 2016
2 Week Results 20 June, 2016 AST 19, ALT 32
4 Week Results 06 July, 2016 AST 22, ALT 30, VL = 35
6 Week Results 20, July 2016 VL only = HCV RNA Detected, Non-Quantifiable <15
8 Week Results 04 August 2016, Labs, LFTs Normal, VL = UND
12 Week Results 31 August, 2016 LFTs Normal, VL = UND
EOT + 4 Weeks, LFTs Normal, VL = UND, "SVR4"
SVR12, 21 Nov 2016. CURED!!!