Yeah sure, at a thousand dollars a pill, right?
Anyway, I don't think it is unfair for a drug company to recover R&D costs and make a profit.
And yes, it should be FREE OF CHARGE and available everywhere.
It should be free of charge? There is no free lunch. Someone will have to pay for it. If you feel the government should pay the company, so be it, but be aware that it's not free in this case; it's the taxpayers paying for it.
Us old folks remember a greater scourge that was hitting the country.
Dr. Jonas Salk gave away his Vaccine and every kid in the country got it for free, the government paid for it. The government can do it again.
It is not socialism, it is not the nanny state, it is nothing but a government doing what it is supposed to do, protecting the people. By the way a Republican was in charge then.
To any anti-vax'rs out there, vaccines work, when is the last time you saw a kid in an
Iron Lung If you went in, it was two weeks, kind of Ironic don't ya think...
Dr. Salk's wiki page People can be ... I'll leave the rest of it unsaid.