Sovaldi saved my friends life. The previous regimine wasn’t successful and with out Sovaldi, she was looking at bleak prospects.
She also had less complications.
I've been waiting for this to be available.... but my insurance doesn't cover it.
I’m glad to hear that. The other treatments available are toxic, work only about 40% of the time and you have to be on them for 6 months to a year. I could go on a long discussion of just how much it takes to actually bring a new medicine to market...much of the 17 year patent life chewed up in exhaustive clinical trials and a capricious FDA but I won’t. If they look to the total cost to treat, including the additional meds for Sovaldi alternatives, I’d bet the costs are about the same or less over a patients lifetime. I wouldn’t expect my insurance will cover it either. But I don’t need pregnancy coverage and a whole host of other things that I am required to have. While they are bashing Gilead, will they ever ask who paid for the traitorous Brad Manning’s sex change operation?
If government had stayed out of medicine and health insurance, then these problems would work themselves out to the benefit of all. Doctors have been known to do many things for people without pay, but government has made the practice of medicine so difficult, that they have neither the time nor the extra money to help people on the side.
Can you imagine how much money would be freed up for helping people who cannot afford treatment if the government got out of the way and stopped making everything more expensive and less available?