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This and the Bradley Manning story show the latest medical innovation. Can’t afford your medical expenses? Commit a crime!
What’s causing the Hep C to spread? Drug use?
“The increase stemmed more from a jump in cost per treatment than from an increase in the number of patients being treated.”
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Medical breakthrough, I assume.
Also – Duty of [CoC] Care. It shouldn’t be a question.
Usually transmitted by sharing needles, blood transfusions, procedures ( Medical, tattooing, razor sharing). Occasional sexual transmission.
my guess in the prison population is overwhelmingly due to IV drug abuse.
News you can use.
It’s a question of prioritizing limited resources.
It’s also a question of an intrusive (I say out of control) FDA and its supporters in Government artificially driving up the prices of medicines, medical devices, and medical care generally, whether by design, or by hastily drawn (or lazily drawn) laws and regulations and demands for this and that, or the supposed need for Government to do something.
Eric Hines
Those are the costs for the latest treatments. I’d like to know how the costs and effectiveness of the next latest treatments compare. I’m not at all convinced our imprisoned criminals have earned the very best at any cost, they might have to settle for second best like most of us taxpayers often have had to do.
If felons want cutting edge pharma care they should volunteer for drug trials.
“a person” in the WSJ?
@erichines and @okiesailor,
The big change in Hep C treatment is that there is a new drug that cures Hep C for most people. Previous Hep C treatments only suppressed the symptoms and one needed to be on them for life. This new drug generally runs >$50K, but after one course of treatment the patient is Hep C free. In this case the company that makes the cure drug is pricing it based roughly on the equivalent of the lifetime costs of the older treatments.
This drug has also become a big issue for the military.
Seems like the chance of reinfecting is pretty high for a prison inmate so it would mean multiple $50k treatments. Now you’re really talking some big money!
That is an interesting question. I don’t know if the new drug also makes one immune to the Hep C virus, or if it just eradicates it and one can recontract it.
This drug is actually a very interesting test case for pricing.
Comments #9 and 10 make me wonder something. If Frozen Chosen and Z in MT swapped avatars would anybody notice?
Z’s fish is bigger than mine.