That raises two questions:<p>* The article is about someone underinsured who went to India. Why couldn&#x27;t he get free drugs from Gilead instead of needing to jump through some hoops in India?<p>* Wouldn&#x27;t insurance companies just decline to pay for every expensive treatment? Probably customers won&#x27;t want to go through prolonged legal battles fighting them for $84000 if they can get the treatment for free.<p>Then again, $1.3 billion in a quarter is only something like 15,500 full-price treatments. The CDC site[1] says there are 3.5 million sufferers. Maybe they expect most people not to pay, so millionaires and some insured will pay.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;hepatitis&#x2F;hcv&#x2F;cfaq.htm#cFAQ21" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;hepatitis&#x2F;hcv&#x2F;cfaq.htm#cFAQ21</a>