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Moderna took $1.5 billion for development.
Pfizer also plans to charge between $100 and $130 for its vaccine.  What a coincidence. >

And just like that vaccine rates drop to 0% >

They will still be paid for by insurance and subsidized by the government for the end user. Like flu shots today.  This is fleecing the taxpayers, not the end user.   
Edit: people misunderstanding my comment - I’m not in favor of the higher prices, I’m just saying it likely wont have an impact on vaccination rates.  This is exactly what happens with national healthcare. >

And the uninsured and underinsured. The are disposable. /s >

It ain’t free to die. Cost more than $ 10,000 to be interred. >

It is very free to the individual that dies. The family is the one who foots the bill if prior arrangements aren’t made. Also, good thing many of my family members chose cremation, it was a lot less than $10k. >

Tell me about it. I’ve been there. >

Same, my Grandparents and Father all died unexpectedly within 6 months of each other a few years back, along with my best friend who had a 2 month old baby. Irrelevant because I was not responsible for taking care of his funeral, but I do know it was not cheap. >

Those are very sad times and expensive times. Yet, life goes on. Take care. No one gets out alive. >

It is patently absurd (pun intended) that the government just surrenders these patents and intellectual property to for profit companies without maintaining any control over them whatsoever.  
If this isn’t a great example of corporate capture, I don’t know what is >

I thought Moderna was the one company that didn’t benefit from operation warp speed? Not that i in any way condone the price hike. >

I believe Operation Warp Speed dealt with manufacturing not development. The idea of manufacturing vaccines that had positive data before they were approved since it takes a long time to build up a large amount of vaccine cultures. The thinking is at least one vaccine would get approved and the headstart would offer enough savings in the economy to justify the cost, not to mention lives saved. >

No it dealt with both.  Moderna developed their vaccine solo  . Again i don’t think the raise in price is a good thing but you have to admit it puts them in a different position than the other vaccine developers