[gruez]

>I think charging money to skip, just causes a whole raft of other problems.

Why?

>Let the elites think they are pulling strings and just give it to them.

But why not give it to them, but also try to extract money from them at the same time?

[michaelt]

Given the gigantic cost of lockdowns to the economy - billions a day - the government has likely already thrown an lot of money at vaccine production and distribution. If more money could be usefully spent, it would have been.

Therefore, if an 80-year-old is 300x more likely to die than 37-year-old Martin Shkreli, moving a dose from the former and to the latter is inefficient.

[Hankenstein2]

You then have to account for and appropriately spend the money which will inevitably be politicized and contentious.