Opinion: Congress can eradicate hepatitis C and reduce the deficit at the same time
The initiative comes with a $12.3 billion price tag — and over 10 years, the savings in health care costs will reach $18.1 billion.
Congress faces a historic opportunity to stamp out a disease that kills thousands of Americans each year and save billions of dollars to boot.
In March, the Biden administration proposed an initiative to eliminate hepatitis C in the United States — a plan that should make sense to both conservatives and progressives. With colleagues, we estimated that the initiative will avert 20,000 cases of cancer, 49,100 cases of diabetes, and 25,000 cases of chronic kidney disease over 10 years. It will save 24,000 lives.
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