How much might you pay for living through a pandemic if the federal government won’t subsidize it anymore?
Like so many aspects of medical care, it’s difficult to just ask a provider or manufacturer for a sticker price—though I tried. Pfizer told me that this is a question for the government. Neither Moderna nor Janssen responded to my requests before the publication of this article.
The Food and Drug Administration told me to ask the Department of Health and Human Services, which also did not respond to my requests. CVS said that “We are fully confident the administration and Congress will find a solution to help ensure people without insurance continue to have access to COVID-19 testing, vaccines and treatment.” Walgreens told me something similar.Monoclonal antibody treatments can be pretty expensive, but up until now, the U.S. government has been paying for them.
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