Even if the field of politics is very broad, the politicians are very limited as they are “constraint” to serve the interests of certain groups.

Unfortunately the “mass group” of HCV patients is not in the sight of the politicians, except when it can be used to manipulate people’s minds and votes.

There exist one strong force which politicians fear, the civil society. The problem with the civil society is that it is hard to organize, nevertheless it is a pool of increased creativity that may deliver unexpected & original results.
We saw a recent such case in Romania with a guy who came with a car registered in Sweden having a trivial car plate number, against the rulling party from Romania (it can be translated as “F*ck P*D” (the brief story here http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/romanians-return-home-for-anti-govt-protest-08-08-201.
Even though having such a plate is not polite, the action revealed something else: the obedience of the authorities, especially the police, to the rulling party who confiscated the car plates, suspended the driving license of the guy and opened an official investigation against the driver, claiming he broke a certain law.
The civil society got mobilised and many people started to research that law and quite fast it was found out that the police missed the fact that that law which “was broken by the driver”, was updated 2 years ago and that in fact the driver commited no crime. The accuses were discharged and the driver got back his driving license.
The unexpected outcome of this story is that for RO people this case was a demonstration that in politics the rulling party is not always right, it only has more votes than the opposition and furthermore, the ruling party may be exposed by the civil society and forced to make what is right.

Who knows, maybe one day the civil society will mobilize to help the HCV patients to have access to medication.

Hope is not lost

Cheers,
RHF