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...assuming that cost is the primary inhibitor of higher education, both Clinton and Dole misdiagnose the disease. College students and their families will wholeheartedly embrace these gifts, but the benefits are directed towards the successful student who has survived the first 12 years of schooling. The easy way to appease young voters in college is to throw money at them...
What happened? Like those of thousands of AIDS patients, Puck's prospects have been dramatically changed by a new class of drugs called protease inhibitors. Used with a "cocktail" of older antiviral medications, the new drugs have demonstrated that AIDS can be held at bay--at least for a while. Puck began his treatment in August, and his symptoms have already gone into remission. The hope is that AIDS will eventually be transformed into a manageable, chronic disease like diabetes. No one knows yet how long the protease-inhibitor reprieve will last, but its effects have already been far-reaching...
Dennis DeLeon, 48, of New York City, is one of the lucky ones; his insurance company covers protease-inhibitor treatment. But he's not quite sure what to do with his newfound life. "I ran up all these charges on credit cards thinking that I would not be around to pay them," he says. Not only does he now have to figure out how to retire his debt, but he and his life partner have to readjust to the idea that they may grow old together. "You feel dazed being back in society again," he says. "People don't know...
...million budget as it sees fit, however. States like New York and California, which supplement the federal money with state funds, are among the most generous, covering more than 50 different medications. Georgia, by contrast, makes just five different drugs available, and only one of them is a protease inhibitor...
Some individual cases are so desperate that the pharmaceutical companies have decided to help out. Last summer New Jersey-based Merck announced that it would make its protease inhibitor, indinavir, available free to 4,100 people who couldn't otherwise afford it. Other firms have pledged to continue treatment for those patients who participated in their clinical trials...