A joint study between Yale University, King’s College Hospital in London and Doctors Without Borders found a single shot could be made for just 89 cents.
Exactly. It’s an argument for regulation. Also maybe they should spend some of their advertisement budget on R&D instead of convincing patients what they should be on.
And let’s not forget that a great deal of the research is already publicly-funded.
I still don’t understand how Covid vaccines are suddenly allowed to cost a fuck ton of money. Enough public money was thrown at those things to buy entire nations - why the fuck isn’t it owned by the public.
I’ve seen that argument about expensive drugs over and over and over.
And you know what it’s an argument in favor of?
Government-subsidized research.
It’s not an argument in favor of pricing drugs so high that only the rich can afford them. At all.
Exactly. It’s an argument for regulation. Also maybe they should spend some of their advertisement budget on R&D instead of convincing patients what they should be on.
And let’s not forget that a great deal of the research is already publicly-funded.
I still don’t understand how Covid vaccines are suddenly allowed to cost a fuck ton of money. Enough public money was thrown at those things to buy entire nations - why the fuck isn’t it owned by the public.
That one is especially ludicrous. It’s mitigating a pandemic (or I guess endemic at this point) illness! It should be manufactured at cost.