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angrychair

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7. I'll need to do some digging

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 28, 2023, 12:06 PM

Oct 2023

But I was under the impression that the government paid all the costs involved in the vaccine R&D, facilities and production costs, as I understood it there were none of the normal upfront costs to either company to produce the vaccine.
I did find this NIH white paper summary that gives a breakdown of the history and development of mRNA and the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
NIH, government researchers and taxpayer dollars seems to have funded all or almost completely all of that development and costs of trails and production.
NIH paper from March, 2022:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426978/

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COVID-19 treatments to enter the market with a hefty price tag [View all] BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 OP

Ahhh, the wonders of the free market Farmer-Rick Oct 2023 #1

Merk and Pfizer, gouging Americans for every penny. sarcasmo Oct 2023 #2

Didn't we already pay angrychair Oct 2023 #3

The government, usually through NIH, will provide grants BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 #4

I'll need to do some digging angrychair Oct 2023 #7

LOL no... BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 #12

Then government needs to pull all funding angrychair Oct 2023 #14

Remember that what you are arguing BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 #15

I get that angrychair Oct 2023 #17

Well now you can't say that pharmaceutical products "give little to no benefit to the taxpayers". BumRushDaShow Oct 2023 #18

We also paid as alpha and beta testers for each round of new Covid medications. The data from those "test subjects"... usaf-vet Oct 2023 #8

How much is your life worth to you is the basic underpinning of this gouging Blues Heron Oct 2023 #5

I wonder if the copay assistance will follow the norm and exclude Ms. Toad Oct 2023 #6

Nationalize the meds that our tax money paid to invent. Magoo48 Oct 2023 #9

This. area51 Oct 2023 #10

forteen hundred dollars for a handful of pills - outrageous. Blues Heron Oct 2023 #11

A GOP tactic: charge a huge amount, we complain, they cut the price in half (but are still making a killing). C Moon Oct 2023 #13

Your money or your life? IcyPeas Oct 2023 #16