Outsourcing and Subcontracting at Colleges and Universities: What You Need to Know. Many colleges and universities across the country are outsourcing or subcontracting, to private companies, various institutional functions and services in an effort to cut costs, and/or improve efficiency.
Hepatitis C, which afflicts some 150 million people globally, often without symptoms for years, can cause fatigue and fever, cirrhosis or liver cancer. The pill, known as Sovaldi, or generically as sofosbuvir, costs $84,000 for a standard 12-week course of treatment.
Meanwhile, the drugs are expected to be available for patients by the end of 2014 or very early 2015. However, even though the Hepatitis C virus cure has been found by doctors, the medicines are extremely expensive, which may mean that widespread use of the drugs for treatments may be limited. Pills for the cure are expected to cost as much as $1,000 per tablet, which not a lot of people can afford even with insurance.