Cenk Uygur
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VA Can’t Afford Life Saving Drug
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December 4, 2015
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7:03Now PlayingThe Department of Veteran’s Affairs can’t afford a medication that could cure Hepatitis C in former servicemen. Soldiers in the Vietnam War contracted the disease during battlefield blood transfusions. Now a pharmaceutical company is charging $1000 a pill for the life saving drug. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“On Tuesday, a Senate report found Gilead Sciences, which makes a cure for a fatal form of hepatitis, is more interested in profits than patients. The cure was invented under the leadership of a celebrated doctor in the Department of Veterans Affairs, but at $1,000 a pill, even the VA can't afford to save the lives of veterans who need it.
In 2013, Vietnam veteran Zion Yisrael was told he had five years to live. He has stage 4 liver disease, caused by hepatitis C -- which has infected as many as 230,000 veterans. Most veterans contracted it in Vietnam where it was spread by battlefield blood transfusions and vaccinations.
"The longer it goes, the harder it is to treat," he said.”
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