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I paid $1300 for a 12 weeks course of generic Harvoni from India. I paid using credit card and it arrived within a week. Normally I'm a law-abiding citizen, but as you said, if it comes down to choosing between violating intellectual property laws and death, it's an easy choice to make.

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Considering even a 12 week vacation in India while you undergo treatment is cheaper than the alternative and also legal, the pricing of the US drugs is very... interesting.

There's probably plenty of other countries where you could get treatment for cheap too.

Hardly anyone with a regular job can just decide to take a 12 week vacation. You'd either have to convince your employer to let you take an unpaid medical leave (and you'd need to have enough savings to survive for 3 months), or you'd need to quit your job and hope to find another when you get back (not that easy for those outside the tech industry).

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