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I would need more information to comment on the HIV drugs, but in general I am not in favor of discriminating against people with one deadly disease over another. Very, very few people ASK to get HIV. Of course, certain lifestyles increase the chance of catching the disease, but the same can be said of lung cancer or many other diseases.

My understanding is that HIV treatment can be extremely expensive - as with any disease, I think the state has a right to insist on sane, cost-effective treatment. But just because HIV is mainly (but not entirely) associated with homosexuals and intravenous drug users, I don't feel treatment should be denied. Neither do I feel that this one disease category has a "right" to the most expensive, state-of-the-art "Cadillac" treatments. So HIV should be covered just as other non-curable illnesses are, neither better nor worse.