Mike Solana

Want to blow a straight person’s mind? There is a drug called Truvada that a) makes nearly all HIV+ people completely asymptomatic b) prevents them from transmitting HIV c) is a 100% effective prophylactic for HIV d) is available to people with means e) is not for everyone else

it's absolutely available to people "without means." not only is it covered by most insurance, including medicare, gilead gives it away *for free* to people who can't afford it.

Insurance requires means. Gilead has given 2.4M bottles to CDC for the 1.1M Americans living with HIV (and the ~359M who don’t have it but could contract it.) They offer a discount to low income people. The discount must be applied for by a doctor. Doctors cost money.

No, it assumes that you understand that many, many Americans are uninsured or underinsured.

I think your definition lacks an understanding of what life outside of our world is like, that reasonable observers of this disease, which disproportionately affects these populations, would note.