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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by tomc1985 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:13PM (#11657185)
That's 2x to 3x the before-tax income of your average non-tech-employed American. Are you kidding?!?!
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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by greeneggs on Monday May 09, 2016 @11:32AM (#11660563)
But isn't it worth two or three years of income to save your life? It seems absolutely worth it to me, frankly a much better value than almost anything I spend money on (I mean, Netflix?).
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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by tomc1985 on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:15PM (#11660917)
Not if people who can't afford it have their lives ruined simply because they can't afford it
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Re:How I Got the $84k Hepatitis C Drug for $1500 by Buying I... by greeneggs on Monday May 09, 2016 @04:23PM (#11662830)
How is someone's life ruined by the existence of a treatment option that didn't exist before?
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