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On heroin and harm reduction
You are cured of your hepatitis after a course of Sovaldi, a new pill that clears the disease in 95 percent of cases. The price of this near-certain cure: $84,000. Each pill costs $1,000. You are fortunate to live in New York, the state where Medicaid coverage of the drug is the most generous. Many states pay for only the sickest patients. You are, relatively speaking, not that sick.
June 10, 2013
We want to raise the bar so much that they have to attack us directly, and then in theory the law protects us.
November 14, 2011
Faced with a celebrity-endorsed blockade, the police backed down, and in the ensuing days I noticed more and more tents.
On heroin and harm reduction
You are cured of your hepatitis after a course of Sovaldi, a new pill that clears the disease in 95 percent of cases. The price of this near-certain cure: $84,000. Each pill costs $1,000. You are fortunate to live in New York, the state where Medicaid coverage of the drug is the most generous. Many states pay for only the sickest patients. You are, relatively speaking, not that sick.
June 10, 2013
We want to raise the bar so much that they have to attack us directly, and then in theory the law protects us.
November 14, 2011
Faced with a celebrity-endorsed blockade, the police backed down, and in the ensuing days I noticed more and more tents.
