Boy Howdy! ( we say stuff like that in Arkansas)
Old Jeff, or is it Jeffrey, sure stirred up a ruckus!
Whatever.. I’m glad he visited, but feel like he rubbed some of that smelly stuff off his pointy-toed boots in our faces.
The funny thing is, he registered twice, posted under both names about how easy it was to get approved and how little it cost and how well he did during and after treatment and then the buckaroo climbed back on his bronco and cantered back to the land where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.
His case is not unusual in the U.S. If you have advanced fibrosis, insurance will generally approve your tx very quickly. The $5.00 co-pay coupon? Anyone in the US can get one online in 5 minutes. I saved $190 by using one.
Insurance restrictions are easing and more people are getting approved quicker. Why? A couple of reasons: Some class action laws suits have been filed and most people who know how to get their request for coverage out of the insurers hands and into the external review (yes, that is part of ObamaCare) get approved. So who benefits? The person with HCV and Gilead. Gilead gets its money, one way or another. Insurance premiums and taxes will begin to rise to cover the expense. The people will blame Congress and the idiots in Congress will blame each other after they get through blaming the black guy in the White House.
We like Texans in Arkansas. They give us someone to argue with. They feel everything is bigger in Texas and I mean EVERYTHING! They send all their kids to college here because it costs half as much, even with out of state tuition, and they can take up two parking slots at WalMart so nobody will scratch their Beemer. There are also a few cows around for them to look at so they won’t get too homesick and our women are prettier and dogs smarter.
So let me see if I can get Jeff, or is it Jeffery, out of the sage brush and back into the herd.

Proverb found on many outhouse walls in Arkansas:
Here I sit, my bowels a flex’in.
Just gave birth, to another Texan…

Now come on back Jeff or Jeffery or Billy Ted and talk to us!

Mike-from Arkansas
-where the women are barefoot and pregnant.
-where you can tell if we are married because there is tobacco spit down both sides of the truck…

According to Mark Twain:

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

“All good things arrive unto them that wait and don’t die in the meantime

Great News!!!
M

Hi Jeff and welcome!
I paid $10.00 for 8 weeks of Harvoni and about $2000 in co pays for tests, scans and procedures needed to document my EHMs. My insurer still only voluntarily covers people on the transplant list. That company insures the health of every Arkansas state employee and public school teacher. People can bitch and moan about Obama Care all they want. The “independent external review” provision of the PAF is how I got my coverage. I am happy about forcing my insurance company to do their job. I have paid them, on average, $300.00 a month for almost 30 years. When I needed their help, they forced me to fight for two years to get the what was rightfully mine. That’s the part I hate. The money, $2000……. you can get more of that and you can’t take it with you.
The time is different….The two miserable, frustrating, anger-filled years of my life I paid for it are gone.
That’s why I do what I do. If I can help ONE person avoid that Hell, I will sleep better at night.
I am sleeping really nicely these days.

Now for the “flip” side: When insurers, both public and private, have to pay Gilead and others the outrageous prices they charge, that money will be recouped through higher taxes and premiums. Somebody has to foot the bill. So, we got well and the expense of our tx will be shared among the masses so Gilead can reap it’s ill gotten gains. If insurers would cover generic tx, they would be out $560.00 instead of $56,000.00.
Very happy for you.
Mike

This one goes out to Big Pharma…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtPRF6NG7I&sns=em

He said this:

“Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest – and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault.”

I second that emotion!!!
Good for you!!
M