Is a cure for hepatitis C worth $84,000? Insurers grapple with the cost of new drugs
Walter Bianco has had hepatitis-C for 40 years, and his time is running out. “The liver is at the stage next to becoming cirrhotic,” the 65-year-old Arizona contractor says. Cirrhosis is severe scarring, whether from alcoholism or a chronic viral infection. It’s a fateful step closer to liver failure or liver cancer. If he develops […]