Your point would be?

That in the US we have been  able to reduce substantially the cost of
providing health care to AIDS patients is further proof that the anti-viral
drugs work. Prior to HAART the cost of treating an AIDS patient was at the
hundreds of thousands of dollars per year levels because they were so much
more likely to be in the hospital. The real reason that the Ryan White CARE
act and AIDS drug Assistance programs were able to be moved through Congress
was not because the members of Congress were terribly concerned about the
horrible way thousands of people were dying. But rather that due to the fact
that a majority of AIDS patients were uninsured thus shifting their cost of
care onto the public. That those costs of providing hospital treatment were
threatening the very viability of most large cities public hospital systems.

There have been many studies over the years comparing the costs of health
care for AIDS patients who are on HAART to those who go untreated. They all
still say that overall even considering the longer life spans since HAART
that the federal government, states, and cities expend less money per
patient for the patient on HAART as compared to those who go untreated.

Gary Stein