[John O]

It's not just gay blades. Many innocent folks are infected because of others who could care less. It costs third party payors, including the gov't, at least $200,000 for each new diagnosis of AIDS according to this New England Journal of Medicine editorial. With an approximately 50% divorce rate and a solid rate of intravenous drug abuse, what else can you offer?

So how manu of these cases each year are either people who practice homosexual behavior or associate with those who do or who do iv drugs or associate with those who do? 99.9% I'd guess.

The correct answer to the cost of each diagnosis ($200K) is that this is a voluntary disease and we should just let it die out. Why should we pay for someone's medical care when they choose to get this disease by their actions. We shouldn't.

[neverdem]

So how manu of these cases each year are either people who practice homosexual behavior or associate with those who do or who do iv drugs or associate with those who do? 99.9% I'd guess.

Sure, it's 99.9% in this country, but it's mostly heterosexually transmitted in the rest of the world. /sarcasm

CDC's numbers for this country were linked already.