[Carolyns]

I asked a question about cost of treatment and drugs to an aids advocate. I asked how the HIV aids community addressed the cost of meds. He said that in that community everyone is "outside of the life raft" and that there was a huge push from the entire population to get the drugs covered with or without insurance. He said that in the case of Breast Cancer there is only a small part of the population "outside of the life raft (with mets)" and that the larger community did not have the sense of urgency. I was attending a breast cancer conference at the time.

Carolyn