I'm pretty familiar with the epidemic and (ineffective/poor/malicious) response to HIV/AIDS from a systemic and government standpoint, and this definitely has m

I'm pretty familiar with the epidemic and (ineffective/poor/malicious) response to HIV/AIDS from a systemic and government standpoint, and this definitely has merit for discussion. One thing that I try to look for is how the notion of health insurance plays into a chronic disease, and unfortunately the article looked pretty light on it - a few mentions of private disability insurance. One of the functional systemic changes brought by the ACA has implications for lots of different survivor types: The notion of a pre-existing condition used to be used as a way to carve-out certain populations from cost-effective access to the US healthcare system - HIV/AIDS is a headline case, but it also had implications for Cancer survivors, which, if I'm not mistaken, is a growing cohort now and in the forseeable future.