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The Associated Press; Friday, November 29, 1991
The study is the first national estimate to consider not only people with AIDS, but also other people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, author Fred Hellinger said.
Projected totals also included $7.2 billion in 1992 and $8.7 billion in 1993. By comparison, Hellinger noted that the annual cost of treating cancer was recently estimated at $35.3 billion.
He said his forecasts are underestimates because they exclude several expensive medications approved since he did the calculations, as well as unapproved drugs and services, such as counseling, not covered by insurance or Medicaid.
Hellinger presents his estimates in the fall issue of Inquiry, a journal dealing with health care organization, provision and financing.
For treatment of AIDS, he calculated a cost of $4.4 billion this year, based on an annual treatment cost of $32,000 per patient.
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