[elfman2]

" Many apparently are so confident now that HIV can be managed with the help of new drug treatments that they are taking fewer precautions to "

They wouldn't be so 'confident' if they had to pay 20% without a cap for the drug cocktail like I have to pay for medical care in my PPO.

[07055]

They wouldn't be so 'confident' if they had to pay 20% without a cap for the drug cocktail like I have to pay for medical care in my PPO.

Bingo.

This is a perverse example of our screwed up medical system at work. Because they are not paying for the drugs, they don't bother trying to avoid the disease. How sick is that?

When you want to encourage something, subsidize it.