They don’t mention it in the editorial, but there are two or three big drug companies making essentially the same drug. Seems to me that Medicare & Medicaid could put out a request for proposals for 50 million doses per week for 10 years and see what kind of volume discount can be negotiated. During the pandemic, the Gov’t was paying $20/dose for the Pfizer COVID vaccine in several multi-billion dollar bulk purchases. Now they’re paying $150/dose for the vaccine piecemeal.
intercst