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Posted 2/5/2015 2:52 PM (GMT 0)
Maybe this will get us some attention. Check out the article posted today by johns Hopkins. John's Hopkins!! It said that looking at people that were treated for lyme, on average it cost 1billion per year in follow ups because they didn't get well. It said, they don't know what the heck is going on but one dose if antibiotics is not the magic bullet and we should be studied. Can someone post their article, it's the first encouraging thing I've read in a long time.
Posted 2/5/2015 3:56 PM (GMT 0)
Hopefully they will come up with a cure but they don't look to cure other things so why Lyme. They make more money from the sick. Here is the link.
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=06c1ccba5186c8c53cbf41005&id=c501ae1862
Posted 2/5/2015 4:00 PM (GMT 0)
Hopefully Lyme will receive research funding that it desperately needs. After the CDC announced a greater number of people being affected yearly was a great start. A billion dollars a year will be noticed by many. I wonder how much of that billion is coming out of our pockets or if that figure is based on medical insurance statistics.
Posted 2/5/2015 4:11 PM (GMT 0)
Louise:

THanks for the article.

Mom of 2:

I was wondering the same thing and I went and read the article. The figure DOES NOT include out of pocket costs which far exceed for most of us the insurance claims. Here is what it says:

Somebody said...
The results of this study are based on 12 months insurance claims data following Lyme disease diagnosis and do not include out of pocket expenses or utilization for longer and/or alternative treatments which many Lyme disease patients continue to incur in their quest for proper diagnosis and regained health. Thus the full cost to patients, including lost work productivity and ongoing care, is greater than the scope of this study.

So the REAL cost is obviously much larger and we'll never find out because it would involve at a MINIMUM asking every LLMD for records and adding up the costs. Plus getting the expenses from each patient. Most LLMDs keep a low profile.

With claims, everything is computerized and within an hour, you can get a lot of statistics on that data.
Posted 2/5/2015 4:27 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, but with health care being so expensive, it seems kinda crazy that the people that are CDC positive and are seemingly "cured" after simple antibiotics are costing the system 1b, after their treatment. (Excluding anyone on the LLMD route)

That's insane given these people are "cured" What they also don't figure is the people going to like hundreds of doctors and never getting diagnosed because they test negative. So it's probably more like 10 billion.

But really more research needs to happen because people aren't getting well after their standard CDC treatment. This is the first article that really suggests that. IDSA needs to get over themselves and realize that not only are they causing human suffering, they are causing atrocious health care costs by denying the problem.
Posted 2/5/2015 4:38 PM (GMT 0)
I think the real cost comes from people being treated chronically for Lyme and coinfects because people are diagnosed late stage and that usually is more costly
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