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I think Gov should buy the vaccine and provide it for free. Private companies should rightfully charge a premium to the governments as they took: 1) Enormous risk 2) Expediency 3) Investment of talent 4) Demand is through the roof; all this even if the governments were involved in hedging the risk for spinning up manufacturing lines.


In the US that is what is happening - no one is paying for the vaccine.

It is intellectually vapid to get worked about the fact companies are making a $15 marginal unit profit on a vaccine that has 10x the utility of the average annual physical but costs 1/10th as much.


I wasn't aware it is free in the US. That's great.


If it isn't free then it isn't effective because it would drastically reduce the number of recipients.


For what it's worth both Trump and Biden stated as much regardless of who won the election.


The vaccine itself is free. Insurance or patient or Medicaid will be billed for an office visit to administer the injection.


Safeway and others have already been getting ready to administer the vaccine at no-cost to the patient. This isn't really an issue




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