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by refurb 2301 days ago
Gotcha.

As an aside, the "netflix model" for drug payments is already a reality in Louisiana. Basically the drug maker and state government negotiated a payment for enough hepatitis C drugs to cure everyone in the state.[1]

[1]http://ldh.la.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/5181

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Yeah, it's called single payer and it's pretty effective. We should try it on other diseases, all of them.
> treat patients within Louisiana’s Medicaid and Department of Corrections populations

Only Medicaid + inmates, not everyone in the state?