[systemvoltage]

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.

[handmodel]

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.

[systemvoltage]

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

[petre]

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

[stjohnswarts]

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

[throwaway201103]

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

[waiseristy]

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