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42. The bottom line: the vax massively reduces your chances of severe illness and death, and it

Mon Aug 22, 2022, 01:33 PM

Aug 2022

helps mitigate transmissibility to others if you do contract Covid.

Vaccines have never been designed to have the main objective of stopping all transmission of the various diseases they address.

You are making a poor choice IMHO, one that I deffo consider qualifies you as being anti-vax in terms of the Covid vaccines.

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What's the maximum you would pay for a future COVID vaccine shot? [View all] True Dough Aug 2022 OP

It may be a good thing if people think they will be expensive. flying_wahini Aug 2022 #1

Makes no sense...aca covers all standard vaccines JT45242 Aug 2022 #2

Your insurance should cover it. People who don't bother, oh well. we can do it Aug 2022 #5

And anyone who wants a vax and doesn't have insurance viva la Aug 2022 #11

ACA is free to lower incomes. we can do it Aug 2022 #29

If you make below 100% of the Federal Poverty Level you actually aren't eligible for ACA subsidies. LudwigPastorius Aug 2022 #38

No hard number but I'd pay whatever I could afford (which isn't much). Elessar Zappa Aug 2022 #3

Maybe $5. Haggard Celine Aug 2022 #8

Sorry, that post was intended for the OP. Haggard Celine Aug 2022 #9

How virulent is the strain? If it's liable to kill me, a lot. Hortensis Aug 2022 #4

How much should an airline pilot be paid? DBoon Aug 2022 #6

Not me. former9thward Aug 2022 #39

Yesterday I learned my answer to that question ... sanatanadharma Aug 2022 #7

Whatever I could afford at the time. LuckyCharms Aug 2022 #10

Everyone on Medicaid, Medicare and ACA compliant private insurance Raftergirl Aug 2022 #12

I'm on Medicare and my doctor billed me $180 for a Tetanus shot liberal_mama Aug 2022 #18

That's hard to justify! True Dough Aug 2022 #20

Yeah, when I called to ask about it, they were like, "Some of it is a fee to administer the liberal_mama Aug 2022 #30

It probably depends on the current statistics... Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2022 #13

Maybe another State issue? What you pay may depend on where you live. Midnight Writer Aug 2022 #14

I struggle BigMin28 Aug 2022 #15

Because I am still relatively young and healthy.... TheRealNorth Aug 2022 #16

The Government isn't "charging" anything... brooklynite Aug 2022 #17

That's so helpful! True Dough Aug 2022 #21

There are no Government subsidies for flu vaccines... brooklynite Aug 2022 #32

There are quite a few responses in this thread alone True Dough Aug 2022 #33

FWIW - I got all of my COVID vaxes for free at a City public health clinic brooklynite Aug 2022 #35

FWIW, the article cited in the OP True Dough Aug 2022 #36

...which I expect public clinics will provide for free. brooklynite Aug 2022 #37

I can't have any more mRNA vaccines because I had side effects so I've only had 2 doses liberal_mama Aug 2022 #19

CVS charges $79 dweller Aug 2022 #22

$0 Polybius Aug 2022 #23

wonder what the rest of the world pays? IcyPeas Aug 2022 #24

Yours is a good question True Dough Aug 2022 #25

VA gives free Covid-19 vaccines to all veterans, Dysfunctional Aug 2022 #26

Good to know True Dough Aug 2022 #27

The VA needs to let veterans know. Caregivers whether family or not can get free CHAMPVA Dysfunctional Aug 2022 #28

I know this is an unpopular stance but $0 as I have not got any COVID vaccines and don't plan on kelly1mm Aug 2022 #31

Why are you an anti-vaxxer? Unless there is a LEGIT medical reason, it's a really poor life choice. Celerity Aug 2022 #40

I am not an anti-vaxxer. I have all the common childhood vaccines that a child of the 70's kelly1mm Aug 2022 #41

The bottom line: the vax massively reduces your chances of severe illness and death, and it Celerity Aug 2022 #42

I an not anti-vaccines and do not try and tell other people that they should not (or should) kelly1mm Aug 2022 #43

This is a bit misleading, Ms. Toad Aug 2022 #34