It is outrageous!
And yes, the Mesochem simeprevir is not absorbable.
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Well kids……
Gaj and I have an unofficial agreement: He minds the store, I weed the garden. But, can’t we take the tit for tat personal sniping to the PM format?
If not, he’s probably going to ask me to help behind the counter so he can get some rest or just close down the damn store.
m

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

My guess…
First born, right arm, left arm and one leg,(I’m terminally right-handed) both thumbs and big toes, life savings, or one testicle or a breast…
My bet: It will be closer to $1000 a pill than $500 or $2000.
Gilead’s Mission Statement:
“Your life for your life’s savings”.
Preferably the latter, but….
Brought to you by pure, democratic capitalism, where the monkey’s run the circus and everyone gets in free but the middle class….
m

Happy for you B!
You are cured in Dr. Mike’s opinion. The rest is, as Holmes would say, “academic”….
I hope your 12 week wait flys by stressfree. Mine did.
I knew the crap was gone.
We both responded very well to tx and look at those enzymes. Not as good as Ariel’s, but fish are different…
m

Hi GP,
Although I have 8 weeks worth of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir, I have been advised there is no way I can legally donate it to anyone.
The world is not a fair place.

All offending comments removed, I think..
Even Joy’s mugshot.
Keep me on topic folks!
m