Pic Of The Moment: Yet Another Example Of Why America Is Better Off With Democrats In Charge

[EarlG]

Moderna CEO: 400% price hike on COVID vaccine “consistent with the value”

Moderna Drops 400% Vax Price Hike After Bernie Promised to Grill CEO

[ShazzieB]

1. They dropped that price hike like a hot 🥔!

[AllaN01Bear]

9. where do i get that emoticon? thanks

aggree.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Firefox has an add-on called Emoji.

[MiHale]

22. If on Apple it's in your emoji's...

On my iPad it’s the smiling face at the bottom of the digital keyboard.
🥔 potato…

🔥🥔 woulda been another way.

[ShazzieB]

29. That emoji came with my Samsung Android and phone.

I have a whole bunch of other emojis, all built into my keyboard. If I happen to type a word that corresponds to one of the emojis, autocorrect gives the emoji as one of the options. That's what happened with the potato. I typed the word potato, the 🥔 emoji popped up, and I selected it. 😁

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Moderna now saying max will remain free to consumers

https://abc7ny.com/moderna-says-its-covid-vaccine-will-remain-free-for-consumers-even/12820344/

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Moderna says its COVID vaccine will remain free for consumers, even those uninsured
ByAnne Flaherty ABCNews logo
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 4:45PM

Moderna will keep its COVID vaccine on the market at no cost to consumers, even after the federal government stops paying for it, the company announced Wednesday.

"Everyone in the United States will have access to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine regardless of their ability to pay," the company said in a statement.

Last month, the vaccine maker was slammed for reportedly considering a dramatic price increase for the shot, which it had developed with the help of the federal government.

The proposal was also bad timing: The Biden administration was moving toward ending its designation of a public health emergencyon May 11, which meant that federal funding for vaccines would soon dry up and uninsured Americans would have to pay out of pocket for their boosters.
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[FakeNoose]

3. Thank you Bernie Sanders - this is how you make them squirm

[Marthe48]

4. How much is too much?

Meglaomania is hoarding of money. Period. You will never get my jar of pennies, so all of you megalomaniacs out there, just resign yourself that you will NEVER get all the money in the world.

Thank you again, Senator Sanders. Sanity rules the day

[peppertree]

5. Bernie means business

He means business to stop its monkey business.

[moose65]

6. Way to go, Bernie!

However, I've seen more math illiteracy on this issue. The price did not quadruple - it was actually multiplied by 5, not 4.

A "400% increase" doesn't mean that the amount quadrupled. If an amount quadruples, that's a 300% increase.

- from your friendly neighborhood picky math teacher.

[ShazzieB]

30. So the amount quintupled, right?

[moose65]

38. Yep

But most people don’t know what that word means either!

[KS Toronado]

31. Thanks

So a fifth of $130 or $26 was the original price? Always have disliked when journalists use percentages,
they can hide the truth or exaggerate it, why not plain old facts & figures for us simple minded people?

[moose65]

39. That's correct!

The price went from $26 to $130.

[progressoid]

7. k/r!!

[orangecrush]

8. Kudus

To Bernie!

[liberalla]

10. Yay Bernie!

[TexasTowelie]

11. Thank you, President Joe Biden. nt

[Me.]

23. Yes

why does everyone else get credit for what he does.

[murielm99]

55. I agree wholeheartedly.

When it happens on a Democratic website? SMH.

[SunSeeker]

27. +1

[betsuni]

36. +1

[Lucky Luciano]

41. Huh?!

The Bernie hate is real.

[TexasTowelie]

42. Huh?

How did you infer or imply that from my statement? Read it again because all I said was, "Thank you, President Joe Biden."

[Malmsy]

44. President Biden is a Democrat, and is leader of the Party.

He is a proud Democrat.

[Lucky Luciano]

45. Seemed like it was going out of the way to avoid thanking the one...

…who caused Moderna to back down. Hint: his name is in the OP thread title.

[Malmsy]

46. What is wrong with congratulating the leader of the Democratic party?

Hint: the OP is praising Democrats being in charge.

[TexasTowelie]

47. The title of the thread is "Yet Another Example Of Why America Is Better Off With Democrats In

Charge" and President Joe Biden is the Democrat that is in charge. My original post in this thread simply acknowledges that fact.

BTW, did the CEO of Moderna say he was backing off the price increase because of Bernie? I have not read a quote from the CEO crediting Bernie for halting the price increase.

[Malmsy]

49. Bancel had agreed to testify in front of the Senate before the price increase was reversed.

It apparently wasn't fear of testifying before the the Senate and Sanders that caused the price reversal.

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/news-moderna-ceo-agrees-to-testify-in-senate-help-committee

And Sanders wasn't the only one criticizing Moderna for the price increase, so there's that.

[betsuni]

50. I still haven't seen any statements that Pfizer or Moderna aren't going to raise prices.

If the Moderna CEO said that this week I can't find it anywhere.

Pfizer has had assistance programs for the uninsured for years, announced last month free COVID vaccines after May. Moderna has done the same. The Biden administration requested Congress fund programs to provide free vaccinations for the uninsured (children already covered but not adults).

I can't see any reversals. I wish I could see the full Moderna CEO quotes but can't find them. As far as I can tell, the price will be raised and insurance companies will pay them, not the insured or uninsured eligible for assistance programs. Maybe more information will come out about it.

[lapucelle]

56. A complex issue like continued federal funding for vaccines deserves genuine discussion.

The real question is why the funds requested by President Biden to replenish the vaccine stockpile didn't make it into the omnibus package.

It was always obvious that without a guaranteed market, costs to vaccine providers were likely to increase. And FWIW, not a single legislator voted against or withheld a vote because the covid relief provisions were stripped from the bill.

While a replenishment of the vaccine stockpile was not funded, the omnibus bill did provide for $8,500,000,000 to purchase additional F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin.

Go figure.

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Summary-of-Funding-Request-to-Meet-Critical-Needs.pdf

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CR_Package_9-2-22.pdf

https://rollcall.com/2022/03/09/covid-19-aid-to-be-stripped-from-omnibus-package/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-democrats-abandon-covid-spending-plans-in-hopes-of-clearing-path-for-1-5-trillion-omnibus-bill

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/commercialization-of-covid-19-vaccines-treatments-and-tests-implications-for-access-and-coverage/#table1

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/era-of-free-covid-vaccines-test-kits-and-treatments-is-ending-who-will-pay-the-tab-now/

https://www.nytimes.com/article/spending-bill-fy23-congress.html

[ColinC]

52. Thank you Democrats

It couldn’t be done if they didn’t work as a team

[LetMyPeopleVote]

53. Thank you President Biden

[JudyM]

12. Berned.

We need more direct, stark and humiliating call-outs like this, a steady diet of “here’s the hypocrisy” for the public.

[mjvpi]

13. Expanding definition of woke.

If you are Woke, you see profiteering in health care as moral bankruptcy.

[CrispyQ]

14. Some things should never be done for profit.

Nothing's sacred in our predatory capitalistic system. .

[mjvpi]

16. Totally agree.

The people who dedicate their lives to the science, research, distribution and application of advancing public health should become comfortably wealthy. If you’re Woke you know what obscene profit looks like.

[CrispyQ]

28. This was one of my favorite pandemic memes.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

40. And Jarvanka and traitortrump were stealing shipments of masks to sell overseas.

[geardaddy]

17. Good on Bernie!

[republianmushroom]

18. this was yesterdays headline

Moderna says its COVID vaccine will remain free for all consumers, even those uninsured

Question what is 400% of "FREE" ?

[appalachiablue]

19. Bernie, giving them hell! Thanks for posting EarlG.

[whathehell]

20. You go, Bernie!!

YES!

[jaxexpat]

21. So who will fill Bernie's

role when he retires? We lost Paul Wellstone and ran Al Franken off for nothing. Bernie gets ears and eyes and people thinking about possibilities and identifying the enemy. Is there anyone else that does that? Have we trained, too well, Democratic politicians that politeness is first and foremost? You can't fight an enemy that remains unidentified.

[Magoo48]

25. Is it just me, but it seems like Bernie puts himself in this more than so many others?

Thanks Bernie.

[jaxexpat]

43. I know of no other senator that would fill his shoes.

The worthies in the house are pretty busy just countering the maga infection there.

[dickthegrouch]

35. Eric Swalwell is doing a great job. /nt

[Luciferous]

37. I think Katie Porter could do it.

[Lucky Luciano]

51. Yeah her!

Katie is top shelf indeed!

One of the best at calling out bullshit.

[Wild blueberry]

24. Thank you, Bernie!

[Paper Roses]

26. Thank You Bernie. We, the little guys, appreciate all you do for us.

It is discouraging to be in a position to worry about things like this. If you are rich, what's another few $$$? To the rest of us, every dollar counts.

[Martin68]

32. Good for Bernie!

[PatSeg]

33. They are shameless

Glad they reversed that price hike. How much money is enough for these people?

[markodochartaigh]

34. Another great success for Bernie, although

I will miss the smell of grilled ceo.

[betsuni]

48. Have Pfizer and Moderna said they aren't going to raise prices? I couldn't find that information.

Both say the insured won't pay for vaccines as usual (insurance companies pick up the increased cost) and both have patient assistance programs where the uninsured can get the vaccine free, but didn't see anything saying they aren't raising prices after May 11. Does anyone know?

[AZLD4Candidate]

54. I loves me some Bernie! Love Bernie! L-O-V-E Bernis Sanders.