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Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
Tell me zhuk. Pleeeease. I emptied my mailbox.
I meant the big empty spaces at the bottom of our posts on this forum. Look you’ve got one Cindi, like me. Zhuk hasn’t got one. Must be another Control agent……..
Hooray for Christmases that come twice in one week!
Completely OT but how do I get rid of the big empty space at the bottom of my posts. Cindi’s got it too and so has 2b but not agent 86. Is this some sort of special voodoo available only to people working for Control or is there a way us normal schmucks can make the big empty space begone?
I don’t want to sound ageist but you know she’s 77.
I’m starting to wonder if on top of being a Gliead shill if EJ is maybe a bit senile. Why would she delete that post? Making a comparison with HIV is the only thing I can think of. It makes no sense.
Sorry I shouldn’t have called people seriously deluded above. That was a bit harsh. I still suffer from PTSD as a result of what ACT Labor and some federal Labor MPs did to me and it bubbles to the surface fairly readily.
My apologies if I offended anybody.
I have to say the timing couldn’t be better for me. In the unlikely event of me having to retreat, the PBS drugs will be available within weeks, saving me around 4 grand. OTOH, I’ll have racked up close to 6 months of wellness before they become available and no tipping over into full blown cirrhosis. Which leaves me very content and without an ounce of regret for having spent the $1500 I did on generics.
I find myself somewhat conflicted, actually. I can’t help but wonder if we haven’t worn them down a bit. While I take the points about the fear mongering and locking of threads, that they have seen fit to post the fixhepc links and leave them up is actually a huge breakthrough for them.
And you have to be careful not to become that which you most despise. A PM to EJ thanking her for her understanding may actually go a lot further at this point than rabble rousing.
I was already having misgivings when I saw that Paul guy’s response in 86’s thread. He was actually being very nice without all the trite God stuff. In my books, on the Internet it’s always ok to play with people’s minds when they’re guilty of lazy thinking. But playing with people’s emotions is not. And I think if this goes where it looks like it’s going, that’s what we could be accused of and they may very well have, at least in part, a fair point.
Ok I’ve just read the rest of the doc’s blogpost and I see there is some suggestion the hep c treatments are being funded by the cuts.
But I’m not convinced that’s entirely fair. Maybe it’s the AMA who are using us as political pawns here. For starters, there is the money to fund this that would have previously been spent on interferon treatments. Secondly, if they’re smart they won’t be bothering with a whole lot of tests on hep c patients that are really no longer necessary. For most people, except the borderline cirrhotics, a fibrosure score should suffice to determine treatment length. Saves a bucketload on expensive fibroscans. As we all know, eot PCRs aren’t really necessary. Then there’s all the savings from not having to treat people with end stage liver disease. If you added up all the costs of those things alone, I’m sure it would go a long way to covering the cost of this programme.
Seymour wrote:
• The funds for hep C treatment do not come directly from cuts to pathology or imaging as some media commentators today have suggested (E.g. Sue Dunleavy in the Daily Telegraph and the Northern Territory Times). The funds for the PBS listing have been committed in MYEFO.No Seymour says these funds are separate. The doc says we can trust Seymour. That’s good enough for me.
Look I was a whistleblower against the ACT Labor government back in the mid noughties. And I can tell you for a fact that if you think the most vile human filth isn’t just as prevalent within the ALP as in the LNP, then you are seriously deluded. My cynicism dial is permanently set to 11.
But give credit where credit is due. This decision rocks.
You haven’t said how you know all this.
miko3 wrote:
Big Pharma has long tentacles and sharp claws.It’s very true but that’s one helluva mixed metaphor, Miko.
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