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A rhetorical staple of the Biden administration is that it’s ensured people have the tools to fight Covid—but that is not the case for people unable to afford the updated vaccine out-of-pocket, which typically costs around $200
Not really his fault tbh. The funding for the vaccine programs flows through congress.
Good thing viruses really care about insurance status.
1000s of years of being frozen in permafrost gave them time to rethink our future. :p
I just got both COVID and flu shots at CVS on Friday. Walked in, got two little jabs, and was out in less than five minutes. Didn't even ask for insurance or any sort of payment whatsoever. I left thinking "well goddamn, this is how it should go for everything."
Not cvs but that’s how mine went today
My CVS also didn’t ask, but seeing how others in line were talking about insurance coverage for shots, I think they didn’t ask me because my insurance info was already on file.
Correct answer.
I also got mine on Friday. Entering insurance info on the appointment site wasn't required but I put it in anyway. My insurance covers it but I was thinking if I took it for free without insurance, I might be taking away a dose that can otherwise be used by someone without insurance. Not sure if that logic is correct.
I got both of mine yesterday. And as I drove away, I was thinking about how much the government will make this free and accessible as long as they know it will save them immensely on the back end.
My wife's work is having a free clinic next week, so I'm getting one or the other. I am staggering them by two weeks now though because I got them both at the same time a couple of years ago and felt worse than I did than when I actually got COVID (I'm still getting regularly vaccinated though). Last year when I staggered them, I felt fine both times.
I kind of feel like I should get the flu shot first just so that elderly people can get theirs when they need it, but maybe that's not necessary.
It's in the fourth paragraph:
A rhetorical staple of the Biden administration is that it’s ensured people have the tools to fight Covid—but that is not the case for people unable to afford the updated vaccine out-of-pocket, which typically costs around $200.
This is gonna be a fascinating study in watching the private insurance/market for healthcare sophistry line of arguments completely evaporate in the face of RealPathologik
It doesn't matter if "fuck me, you got yours", if you don't help take care of the other who can much easier catch Covid, it will get around to you whether you like it/not, it lines up with your worldview or "philosphical" underpinnings, or you were completely responsible and did everything else right beside pure privilege in keeping yourself insulated from it otherwise.
We are all connected and we are inextricably bound on an economic as well as +socio-physico context
No arguments will evaporate because the rich dudes that make and listen to those arguments all have fancy private insurance. It's a non-issue for them.
Their point is that the more people who have covid the worse it is for everyone, even those who are vaccinated.