What about the cost to society?

What about the savings to society?

What would having the surgery to rectify the issues with biid cost society? Or along those lines.

How about another way of looking at it, what has biid cost me? In short a lot, of both priceless and being able to put a price on some things. Not only, that but also what is having unresolved biid already costing society?



For what it’s cost me, an adequate required education from the public school system, not being able to go to college (even though attempted to), it’s cost me two houses that were fully paid for (and I‘m only 23), not being able to get (gainful) employment (though I‘ve tried/am trying), ineffective/useless treatment and prescriptions, not being able to get/attend some of what a lot people consider some of there most precious memories and events, such as graduation, prom, birth of cousins (or in my case my aunt) etc.

So what has that cost me for what I could put a price on, it’s somewhere in the range of $400,000 dollars, and counting. The cost to society around a $200,000 dollars. The cost of the surgery, and things associated with that for a lifetime (for someone who would live to be about a hundred year old), in the range of $150,000, and NOT counting.  Both of those costs are from someone whose twenty three years old, likewise for someone older, the cost already to society would go up exponentially, and the cost what would occur to society would un-proportionately go down (i.e. it‘d go done just little), but no where near the range to justify denying the requested (or even required) operation.

The cost that’s already occurred (and occurring), is quite a large sum of money, that I’m sure you’d find life changing if you had it. Again that sum is from someone relatively young (23 y/o), and from someone who wasn’t on those expensive drugs or therapy for long, as they were ineffective, and counter productive.


Now for some people with biid, those prescriptions are quite spendy in and of itself, where individually the cost adds up quite quickly in a year, some even to the point of being more than a life time of what would be needed if the surgery were performed, and that is from only one prescription and in one year. Now add onto the cost of seeing the person who prescribed those drugs, and add sometime two or even three more prescription at hose prices. The sum total, could quickly become in the millions, even the multimillions ($2,000,000 or more) in just under five years, for one person. How’s that for a cost to society?

For the cost of more than one person, say a hundred people, the cost quickly becomes $200,000,000 (two HUNDRED million dollars) in five years.

For the cost to society that would result from the operation, and consequential resolution of bid, for one person, for most cases that I see, would be no more than about $200,000 for the liftime. The total cost to society if the operation would be performed for those same 100 people, $20,000,000 (twenty million dollars) for the lifetime of those 100.

That’s close to, if not (but probably substantially) more than one hundred eighty million dollars ($180,000,000) of savings to society per half a decade.

So now why are people so scared of savingnearly two hundred million dollars for every half a decade? It is beyond me.



-David