wow, sorry to butt in, but are you that bold as to repost the same Q.& A. after he posted the EXACT information you requested and you dismiss it as too extensive? pure astonishment. Wow,then you go read through his 26 page post and tell me how it answers my question. Ok?
I'm not going to it.
I simply asked him to document his claim that it costs more to treat an AIDS patient than any other disease.
All that requires is a short list of the average cost of treatment per AIDS patient, compared to the next few most expensive diseases on the list...and then cite a source for the information.
Anyone could do that in a few brief sentences.
If they actually knew the answer.
The idea that I'm supposed to sift through a 26 page article to find info to support somebody elses argument.. well it's just not going to happen. It didn't even have a freakin title.
this is the post refered to,..................
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_AIDS Since the first federal resources were made available to state and local health agencies for AIDS prevention in 1985, federal funding, which now includes money for research, treatment, and housing, has skyrocketed to $13 billion for fiscal 2003. As a result of the work of highly mobilized lobbying forces, more is spent per patient on AIDS than on any other disease, though it does not even currently rank among the top 15 causes of death in the United States. In one year, 1998, heart disease, the nation's leading cause of death, killed 724,859 Americans only 6.8 percent less than the 774,767 who have contracted AIDS in the last 20 years.2 Of those 774,767 total AIDS cases, 462,766 have died. During that same period, 14 million Americans 30 times more have died of heart disease.
Research expenditures at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) demonstrate the uneven use of federal resources. In 1996, NIH spent an average of $1,160 for every heart disease death, $4,700 for every cancer death, and a whopping $43,000 for every AIDS death.3 Even though they get far less research money, that year heart disease killed 24 times more and cancer killed 17 times more than the number of people who died from AIDS in 1996, when AIDS was still the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S.
272 posted on 04/29/2003 10:26 PM EDT by EternalVigilance (Awaiting your repentence...LOL...)
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you either missed it or something else. this was prior to the long post "EV" sent you . looks like proof to me.