California Health and Safety Code

§ 121260

HSC § 121260 Effective Aug 18, 1997Div. 105 · Part 4 · Ch. 13

Statute text

The Legislature further finds and declares all of the following:

(a)The average cost per patient in the treatment of AIDS until death is now one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000). It is estimated that total costs including health care of the first 10,000 AIDS cases in the United States totaled more than six billion three hundred million dollars ($6,300,000,000). By 1990, according to the department, Californians will spend almost five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000) in medical costs alone in care and treatment of 30,000 AIDS patients, with no realistic hope for their remission or cure. This cost does not include money spent on education, research, and lost income.

(b)To date, the costs of caring for people with AIDS related complex (ARC) has not been officially calculated. However, it is safe to assume the costs are substantial over time. Experts fear that the illnesses of ARC patients, although they may not be fatal, are severe. For example, the virus invades the brain rendering the patients incapable of caring for themselves. It is, therefore, plausible that a percentage of ARC patients will need to be institutionalized.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 294, Sec. 22. Effective August 18, 1997.