Ryan White, ADAP, Medicaid funding problems could push HIV providers to the end of their tethers. Health care providers subsidize patchwork system.
AIDS advocates and HIV providers increasingly are pessimistic about the future of HIV patients in this nation when federal adn state cuts are forcing many more people on drug waiting lists and drug company compassionate care rolls. The problem is the medical care of the HIV population, even at its most efficient, cost far more than what any government and insurance funds will pay for it, and the situation is only getting worse, they say.
D005380:Financing, Government; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics*; D008483:Medical Assistance / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*