The random thought thread

**nottoosharp** · 08-24-2016

Originally Posted by Iowatech

High praise to the "Cajun Navy"! They've been doing amazing things during the current flood disaster in Louisiana.

As long as we stop helping people in New Orleans. Those folks should have already moved.

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**slimslob** · 08-25-2016

Originally Posted by nottoosharp

Hepatitis C has been actually cured. Harvoni cures hep C in 8 weeks with very little side effects.

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I did some checking. 12 weeks is the recommended treatment period though some can be cured in 8 weeks. Other hep C types could take as much as 24 weeks. The cost is the main thing with hep C treatment. Sovaldi costs $1,000 a pill, or $84,000 for a typical 12-week course of treatment, but it must be used with other drugs. Harvoni is even more expensive at $1,125 a pill, or $94,500 for a 12-week course of treatment. But that is roughly in line with the total cost for Sovaldi and the drugs used with it. Many patients will be able to take Harvoni for only eight weeks, at a cost of about $63,000.

**nottoosharp** · 08-25-2016

Originally Posted by slimslob

I did some checking. 12 weeks is the recommended treatment period though some can be cured in 8 weeks. Other hep C types could take as much as 24 weeks. The cost is the main thing with hep C treatment. Sovaldi costs $1,000 a pill, or $84,000 for a typical 12-week course of treatment, but it must be used with other drugs. Harvoni is even more expensive at $1,125 a pill, or $94,500 for a 12-week course of treatment. But that is roughly in line with the total cost for Sovaldi and the drugs used with it. Many patients will be able to take Harvoni for only eight weeks, at a cost of about $63,000.

I know. Fact is, it's actually a cure.

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**blackcat4866** · 08-25-2016

Originally Posted by Iowatech

Not really, barbecue generally smells good, and a bug fuser fry usually smells awful, and isn't that nutritious either.

Boxelderbugz.jpg

I'll confirm that. Box elder bugs smell pretty bad when crushed and roasted, but make interesting copies. =^..^=

**Iowatech** · 08-25-2016

Originally Posted by nottoosharp

As long as we stop helping people in New Orleans. Those folks should have already moved.

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That's the stupidest thing, unless you personally actually can make that happen. Then you are a better person than me.
Give credit where credit is due please.

**nottoosharp** · 08-25-2016

Originally Posted by Iowatech

That's the stupidest thing, unless you personally actually can make that happen. Then you are a better person than me.
Give credit where credit is due please.

The rest of Louisiana is fine. We waste hundreds of millions just to keep the cesspool we call New Orleans above water.

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**NeoMatrix** · 08-26-2016

Originally Posted by slimslob

I did some checking. 12 weeks is the recommended treatment period though some can be cured in 8 weeks. Other hep C types could take as much as 24 weeks. The cost is the main thing with hep C treatment. Sovaldi costs $1,000 a pill, or $84,000 for a typical 12-week course of treatment, but it must be used with other drugs. Harvoni is even more expensive at $1,125 a pill, or $94,500 for a 12-week course of treatment. But that is roughly in line with the total cost for Sovaldi and the drugs used with it. Many patients will be able to take Harvoni for only eight weeks, at a cost of about $63,000.

Wow... is that really the cost of persciption drugs in the USA ? Wow for a handful of chemicals. Someone needs to rectify that sort of evil pricing health system out. How can doctors justify feeding off the poor people in such a horrendous parasitic monopoly when they need it the most. How does the pharmaceutical CEO's lay straight in their gold coated bed each night ?

As I tell alot of associates, if our medical industry becomes totally privately owned, the poor will be unable to cure themselves. The poor will then go and work for the rich and pass the disease/illness on to those people and their children in a continued cycle. Disease an illness does not discriminate against rich or poor. For every one person that can not afford health care, there will be one hundred become ill by the bureaucratic stupidy of an ill afford private health system.

It has been said a billion times: -- "One person sick, all people sick"...

The right to clean health should be mandatory for all people not a privilege for the rich few.

**nottoosharp** · 08-26-2016

I don't complain about it. I also don't believe in free healthcare for all, or any other socialist crap.

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**SwisSeV** · 08-26-2016

Originally Posted by NeoMatrix

Wow... is that really the cost of persciption drugs in the USA ? Wow for a handful of chemicals. Someone needs to rectify that sort of evil pricing health system out. How can doctors justify feeding off the poor people in such a horrendous parasitic monopoly when they need it the most. How does the pharmacutical CEO's lay straight in their gold coated bed each night ?

As I tell alot of associates, if our medical industry becomes totally privately owned, the poor will be unable to cure themselves. The poor will then go and work for the rich and pass the disease/illness on to those people and their children in a continued cycle. Disease an illness does not discriminate against rich or poor. For every one person that can not afford health care there will be one hundred become ill by the beauacratic stupidy of an ill afford private health system.

It has been say a billion times: -- One person sick all people sick...

The right to clean health should be mandatory for all people not a privilige for the rich few.

The US health care system is over complicated and incentives high drug prices. The system has to change, everyone knows it's broken.
People under a certain income level in Hawaii get free healthcare, but that means that buying insurance here is very expensive. For myself I pay over 600 a month. When I went to the Doc the other week for a physical it still cost me more than a hundred dollars out of pocket with my insurance.

With the amount of money I put into a system I rarely use, the doctors office should be picking me up at my house with a Limo, filled with champagne and women.

**nottoosharp** · 08-26-2016

Indeed it is broken. Prices for regular guys are unaffordable, yet felons get out of prison with free medical care, and people refusing to work can fake an injury and collect disability and get everything paid for. It's cheaper for me to pay the tax penalty and pay for my own healthcare than it is to have insurance.

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