Forward Observer
Forward Observer — Out of Bad Comes Good In A Strange Way
New Heptatitis-C Drugs Now Available to All Veterans Who Need It
In a past articles we have written about the current abortion of a program known as Veterans Choice which Congress itself helped to create in trying to make the VA’s healthcare system more responsive to veterans living in the current era (In the coming year we should expect to see major improvement.) Ironically, an immediate good has resulted from this failure because funds were transferred from the program to overcome a critical budgetary crisis, partially caused by the cost of a certain breakthrough, hepatitis drug. Furthermore, the issue of hepatitis care was not then forgotten. This is important news to those among the estimated 200,000 veterans who heretofore have been awaiting the lifesaving medicine now available – sofosbuvir, sold as Sovaldi and Harvoni. (more…)