Many do pay from their own pockets...The post I was responding to was claiming that only the very wealthy can pay for AIDS drugs.
But of course health insurance pays for most of these drugs, which is also true of drugs for many other conditions which cost thousands of dollars a year to treat.
Everyone pays, in the form of higher insurance or taxes.
When it comes to the health of productive individuals the cost of the drugs is much less than costs for hospitalization and drugs for those who become ill.
Studies have shown that AIDS drugs are more cost- effective than customary treatments for several other diseases.
Meanwhile, people with AIDS can keep giving it to other people. I mean, who gives AIDS to people - those with AIDS or those without AIDS???
So what is your point? When it comes to those with diseases that can infect others..the goal is to have them die as soon as possible?
Of course not. Does it give you the jollies to imagine that everyone who thinks homosexual behavior is not normal is a cruel person who wants others to die? Do you then feel more self-righteous, to think others are evil?
I have two points - first, is that AIDS drugs are often way more expensive than other drugs. It's thousands of dollars a month, last I heard and I can't imagine anyone pays for them out of pocket.
Second, because AIDS is primarily a disease that people conract through behavior that they choose to engage in, why should I or others pay for it? Since the huge majority of AIDS cases are directly or very slightly indirectly caused by men having sex with men, or intravenous drug users, or prostitution, why should I have to pay more? People who have AIDS keep giving it to others. What quarantine for them?