)
Patient B with BCBS health
insurance has a $50 co-pay for Peg/riba + labs + monthly
insurance payment and so forth, still, aprox. 1/10 of what uninsured patient pays. But ....... patient B has only Stage 1 liver damage so is wait-listed until Schering Plough can assure an uninterrupted supply of Peg. (Pegasys was not FDA approved until later that year.)
From the link provided by the OP:
".....Sovaldi is a vexing problem for prisons. One-third of the 2.