If it truly cures Hepatitis C it is well worth the money. Hep C is costly, and even standard treatment is pricey. Many people go on to have chronic illness and then develop liver cancer. Compared to years of treatment and still losing productive lives to the disease, 200K is a bargain.
didn't say it wasn't a bargain, it's simply that i'll die before before i win the lottery... i did the whole interferon/ribivirin thing TWICE when my ins covered prescriptions, my current ins doesn't cover Rx at all, so...
oh yeah, i now have micro-nodular cirrhosis too
well, i never planned to live forever anyway
My best friend died from cirrhosis of the liver caused by hep c. They figured she got hep c from a needle prick while working in a hospital before they decided used needles were dangerous.
She was on the transplant list and finally got one but by then she was just too sick to survive it.