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In many other countries getting treated for hepatitis C won't cost you a dime besides your regular health insurance payment. Prices are often negotiated by health insurers and are pretty much guaranteed to be lower for that reason. Depending on what system you are in, you might never even learn what your treatment cost. Not that you should care.
That depends on the treatment and politicians’ willingness to pay for it. Take cystic fibrosis in England: Until this year, modern, highly effective (and, yes, expensive) treatments available for years in the US—covered at low out-of-pocket cost by insurers there—were unavailable through the NHS.
The same was true of hepatitis C in England - even though NICE, the body responsible for assessing what drugs should be available on the NHS, found that the new treatments were cost effective at the price they were being sold for, the NHS balked due to the total cost of curing everyone and refused to offer it to anyone except a handful of patients who already had severe liver damage.