Thread by @TheRealHoarse

@traddegeneracy @emrazz @Debi129 If I needed it? Me personally?

I would be forced to beg the pharma’s patient assistance program to accept me and subsidize it.

Failing that, I would have to crowdsource the money.

@traddegeneracy @emrazz @Debi129 See, here’s the thing, I’ll make this very personal...

A good friend of mine died of Hep C complications. He suffered for years after contracting Hep C during a transfusion during knee surgery.

He was a good man.

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@traddegeneracy @emrazz @Debi129 Harvoni and like medications are medical miracles.

People can take one pill a week with minimal side effects for a couple months and be cured of the disease that killed a friend of mine.

That is a medical miracle. It is the very best of medicine and science.

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@traddegeneracy @emrazz @Debi129 Thanks to our very effed up system though, it is outrageously expensive and therefore not accessible enough to patients in need.

I work in communications though. I get messages out. I can’t control the pricing or how insurance works or how pharmas price drugs.

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@traddegeneracy @emrazz @Debi129 What I can do though is get the word out to every person like my friend Chris who can now be treated with this effing medical miracle that will likely save their life.

People who don’t seek treatment don’t get cured.

People who don’t know to seek treatment don’t seek treatment.

@traddegeneracy @emrazz @Debi129 So, will I take that pharmas money to help them find and educate sick people about the fact that there is a medication that will cure them?

Hell. Fucking. Yes.

And I’ll think abt my friend w a little sadness that the cure came too late for him. I miss the guy. Sweet man.

@traddegeneracy @emrazz @Debi129 I have very little patience for sanctimonious Twitter assholes who think everything in life is binary and cartoonish.

I’ve worked for several pharmas. I am not just fine with the work I’ve done, I’m proud of it and don’t give one tiny fuck what dumbass Berners think of it.