> There are 3 million people living in the US with Hepatitis C, many who are needlessly dying from it are not incarcerated. I was responding to the claim about

> There are 3 million people living in the US with Hepatitis C, many who are needlessly dying from it are not incarcerated. I was responding to the claim about people who need it the most. People who are incarcerated are, in fact, the people who benefit from curing HCV the most. And the price is not the reason they are unable to access it. > The sticker price is a scam to make insurers feel good when they get double digit percentage discounts, while still lining Gileads pockets. Even if you subscribe to the absurd notion that massive insurance companies incentivized by their bottom line could be oblivious to that dynamic and content with "feeling good" about an imaginary discount that lines their vendor's pockets, this argument falls apart when you look at how much the same medication costs in countries like Germany and France. Sovaldi costs about the same over there, and in fact, used to cost more than it did in the US (in addition to receiving approval much later than they did in the US).