PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all insurance plans [Also now from CDC: send up to 1 million free HIV self-tests over the next 5 years = helps reduce HIV yet subsidizing and promoting immoral behavior : see comment]

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[daniel1212]

Insurers have been advised that they shouldn’t be charging for Truvada and Descovy as HIV prevention and that associated clinic visits and labs must also be free....

Truvada, which contains a pair of antiretroviral medications also used to treat HIV, was approved for use as HIV prevention in 2012. Research indicates that when taken daily, the tablet reduces men’s risk of contracting the virus from sex with other men by more than 99 percent. PrEP reduces women’s risk of HIV by at least 90 percent...

Descovy, which is associated with improvements in bone density and kidney function tests compared with Truvada, was given the green light by the Food and Drug Administration in 2019.

Both drugs are manufactured by Gilead Sciences, which is the dominant player in the HIV treatment market. Since this spring, Truvada has been available in a generic form with a list price as low as $30 per month. By comparison, Descovy’s list price is currently $1,930 and Truvada’s is $1,842

[daniel1212]

And also from the CDC:

We are pleased to announce the launch of Together TakeMeHome (TTMH), a project with the goal of distributing up to 1 million free HIV self-tests over the next five years. People in the United States, including Puerto Rico, can order up to two free HIV self-tests every 90 days via a new online portal. Tests are available to anyone 17 years or older, regardless of health insurance or immigration status. TTMH is supported by CDC, in partnership with Emory University, Building Healthy Online Communities (BHOC), NASTAD, Signal Group, and OraSure Technologies. - https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/policies/dear-colleague/dcl/032123.html

And the NIH states : "We estimated an average lifetime HIV-related medical cost for a person with HIV of $420,285 (2019 US$) discounted (3%) and $1,079,999 undiscounted for a median 3-year diagnosis delay and 3% base dropout rate. Our discounted cost estimate was $490,045 in our most favorable scenario and $326,411 in our least favorable scenario."

While reducing HIV cases is good, as is fighting cancer, etc., yet by far the main means of contracting HIV is via sodomy [after about 40 years of seeking to prevent it, although only approximately 7% of adult and adolescent males reported having had male-to-male sexual contact at some point in their lives, 82% of HIV infections among males in 2018 were attributed to male-to-male sexual contact. And in 2019, 70% of all new HIV infections in the U.S. were among homosexual men, and 63% of all people in the US with HIV were homosexual men."Young gay and bisexual men accounted for 84% (5,161) of all new HIV diagnoses in people aged 13 to 24 in 2020," and "in 2019, among transgender adults and adolescents, the largest percentage (93%) of diagnoses of HIV infections was for transgender MTF, and  in 2019, diagnoses of HIV infection among adolescent and young adult males (85%) and females (12%) accounted for approximately 97% of HIV diagnoses (Table 8b)." And which practice (historically)  has resulted in a greatly increased incidence of other infectious diseases,   from Meningitis to Monkey pox and premature death. ]

Thus HIV transmission is almost fully preventable via change in behavior, yet unlike certain behaviors (from smoking to using fossil fuels), the government actually affirms the practice, and in response to the diseases that typically result, the government burdens tax payers in seeking to prevent as well as to treat it.

While Insurers can charge tobacco users up to 50% more than those who don’t use tobacco, (and certain high-risk behaviors as sky-diving can raise Life Insurance costs), yet since protected classes are no longer restricted to such non-moral aspects as race, skin color, national origin, etc. but includes psychological and (immoral) behavioral orientation, then rather having higher insurance premiums due to an unhealthy (homosexual) lifestyle, insurance companies and that of the government are required to pay costs for both prevention and care. And with the raise of the transgender right, then under the ACA gender can no longer be a factor in determining rates.

Of course, the government enabling an unhealthy practice is done in states providing free needles to drug addicts, though the CDC laments that Current federal law prohibits the use of federal funds to purchase sterile needles or syringes for the purposes of illegal use of drugs by injection.

The intent is to reduce diseases and deaths, yet by free needles facilitates continued drug use, though usually this is part of a program designed to help addiction overcome addiction.

However, providing Prep to those who practice sodomy is not part of any program to straighten out sexual addicts, and while it can reduce HIV, and thus treatments and deaths, yet it is still facilitating a practice which results in increased spread of other STD's, and besides which is immoral and deleterious to both individual and society.

God made man and women distinctively different yet uniquely compatible and complementary, and only joined them together in marriage - as the Lord Jesus Himself specified (Mt. 19:4–6) - and Scripture only condemns homosexual relations wherever they are manifestly dealt with.

And homosexual relations have been tragically primarily responsible for approx. 80% of new HIV cases among men and over 700,000 American deaths, though such is not even the decisive reason why homosexual relations are wrong.

Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47

[daniel1212]

Yet "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel [Sodom]? (Ezekiel 33:11) For as said, there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47

[Gay State Conservative]

So if I decide to eat well “marbled” sirloin three meals a day does that mean I get free cholesterol medications to counteract my stupidity?

[TexasFreeper2009]

butt pirates driving up everyone else’s insurance rates

[uranium penguin]

The conspiacy theorist in me says they are doing this not for Gays and AIDS.

But for the HIV outbreaks that are looming due to the long term Vax side effects.

[I want the USA back]

Of course. Aids has been a privileged disease from the start. I have crowed many times that the holy grail of the left is to force normal people to pay for aids care, abortion, euthanasia, and sex “change” operations. They’re almost there.

[fwdude]

The advent of PrEP also, not surprisingly, accompanied the massive spike in other STD rates, mostly in homosexual men, due to the false sense of safety the medication gave to them.

So, now STD treatments must also be “free.” Lather, rinse, repeat.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Gilead Sciences, which is the dominant player in the HIV treatment market"

One observes that Gilead is also the manufacturer of the Fauci-promoted remdesivir.

The CDC and FDA are no longer hiding the game. Everybody pays through insurance and tax- and debt-financed drug "uptake."

State corruption on an enormous scale.

[fwdude]

butt pirates driving up everyone else’s insurance rates

No doubt.

Notice the creeping fascism. Butt pirate irresponsible behavior must be subsidized by insurance, i.e. you and me. Everyone must have health insurance. If the left has their way, you pay a steep penalty for not having health insurance. Thus, you must pay for dangerous sodomite behavior regardless.

[TexasFreeper2009]

what is annoying is that I can’t even TOUCH my phone in the car without my insurance going up, but the butt pirates can sleep with 1,000 men with no change in their rates!

[cuz1961]

Totally free ?

Someone is

1.being paid somewhere

2.for something

3.by someone.

My guess

1.fauci patent & royalties

2. Fauci HIV drugs

3. Taxpayers.

So,. FAR from free.

[Bob434]

How much does a Truvada prescription cost? A month’s supply of Truvada is nearly $2,000 without insurance

A generic version costs just $30 to $60 in comparison.

Many people in this country are sick with diseases through no fault of their own, and who cant afford their medications for various diseases, but by golly bleeding g heart liberals just gotta make sure homos keep engaging in risky behavior, which can be 100% prevented by folks by not practicing deviant immoral risky behavior to begin with.

It’s like rewarding bank robbers by making sure cops never go out to arrest them because it might make the perps feel bad or something.

[fwdude]

Insurance companies are being told that they must bear the brunt of this massive expense. They cannot pick money from a forest of money trees, so they must get the required funding from policy holders in the form of much higher policy premiums. It doesn’t matter if these are private insurers or ACA companies. Money has to be found.

So much for “affordable.”

[Bob434]

[[. Thus, you must pay for dangerous sodomite behavior regardless]]

Exactly! A lot of folks say something along the lines of “I don’t care what homos do,as,long as they keep it to themselves and it doesn’t affect them” but the fsct is, it IS Afecting everyone. Taxpayers pay to cover mi,lions in costs for every homosexual who gets aids and ends up in hospitals, on exp3nsive drugs, they also,infect others like nurses docs, drug addicts, who then bring the virus home to the8r loved ones, they affect society now by demanding society bow down to them while they steamroller the country and force their immoral values on Christians who are ordered to violate their Christian beleifs to “bake the cake” so to speak, they are trying to force Christian schools and places of worship to allow them to serve in leadership positions when it is clearly agaisnt that schools or businesses TOS or statement of faith.

Homosexuals do NOT keep their deviant behavior to themselves (some im sure do,by not engaging in mu,itple partners, or by paying for their own Healthcare themselves I stead of allowing the state to do so, etc, but most I’m sure stand their demanding that society take care of,them 100% so,that they can continue in their immoral dangerous degeneracy

[fwdude]

Sodomites have been blaming normal society for their OWN AIDS epidemic from the start, with Pres. Reagan getting the brunt of the blame. So, if we don’t empty our pockets for them, WE are the “bigots.”

[Tell It Right]

Why should we have to pay other people to be a pain in the butt?

[fwdude]

"In a move that is expected to prove transformative to the national HIV-prevention effort, the federal government has announced that almost all health insurers must cover the HIV prevention pill, known as PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, with no cost sharing — including for the drug itself and, crucially, for clinic visits and lab tests."

This entire farce is exactly farcical for numerous reasons.

I will start with the old adage, "you can lead a horse to water, ...." Just because a so-called "remedy" is made more available, that does not presuppose that the targeted problem population will avail themselves of the solution, or do so properly and effectively.

I will also say that I'm not convinced that PrEP is really as effective as the biased "researchers" lead on about. These types of studies are always plagued by the "Hawthorne effect," a description of study participants behaving much more carefully when they know they're being closely watched by the researchers. There have already been several breakthrough infections in people who were on PrEP, so the ballyhooed "100% effective" claims are not exactly correct, at least not in real life in the long term.

Additionally, perfect, or even effective, adherence is extremely rare in the population targeted for PrEP. After all, how can you expect responsible adherence to a medication regimen in a population irresponsible enough in their sexual behavior to require the preventative medication to begin with? Frequent missed doses leads to lower levels of the drug in the system, allowing subsequent exposure to HIV to get a foothold, even allowing it to mutate to a point of drug resistance, introducing a whole new problem.

[telescope115]

The socialization of our medical system marches on.
AND it will drive up the already high prices of medicines that the rest of us need.

[telescope115]

It’s like rewarding bank robbers by making sure cops never go out to arrest them because it might make the perps feel bad or something.
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Just ask Alvin Bragg and Kim Foxx…

[Bob434]

I know- they are the worst. Wasn’t it her that didn’t prosecute a couple of black men who shot it out in traffic, leaving one dead, with mu,tiple people recording it, claiming that the reason she refused to prosecute was because they were “mutual combatants”? (She later backtracked by claimingmthat detectives couldn’t determine how the Gunfight unfolded, so they couldn’t proceed with a criminal case. Despite multiple recordings, she “could not determine who started the fight” which evidently was a lie, the video showed one party initiating the gunfight apparently)