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.
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.
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.
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read in a month. It was originally and still is a diabetes drug. Go lick more corporate boots.
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.
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.
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.