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Last week, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced its plan to start charging $1,390 for one five-day course of Paxlovid, a Covid-19 anti-viral treatment.¹

What’s worse? It costs less than $14 to make. That’s more than a 10,000% markup.

This is just the latest in a long line of Big Pharma companies price-gouging crucial, life-saving medications — a costly symptom of our broken, for-profit health care system here in the United States.

But you know what would solve it? Medicare for All.

We deserve guaranteed health care for all through a single-payer system that would prevent health care corporations from profiteering off of patients’ care, especially as we continue to face a deadly virus that generated a global health crisis.

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Together, we will continue to push our leaders to leave this broken system behind by finally passing single-payer health care for all across the country.

In solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

 

Sources:

1. "Pfizer more than doubles price of lifesaving Covid-19 medication Paxlovid as US transitions out of pandemic phase," CNN, October 18, 2023
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/health/pfizer-paxlovid-price/index.html