[ [link removed]- ]Join more than 100,000 MoveOn members and sign my petition to tell
Moderna: NO price-gouging the people-funded COVID-19 vaccine we all paid
for! –Bernie Sanders
Dear MoveOn member,
Did you catch this important email I sent you last week about how Moderna
is poised to put outrageous corporate profits over people? That's
right—Moderna is planning to more than quadruple the people-funded
COVID-19 vaccine price from $26.36 to $130, which is 4,500% more than the
estimated $2.85 it costs to produce.
We, the taxpayers of this country, funded the research and development of
this lifesaving vaccine to protect our health and lives, not to enrich the
pharmaceutical industry. And if we come together now, we can stop Moderna
from putting profits over people.
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This is not new. This is all part of Big Pharma’s playbook, which forces
the American people to pay outrageous prices for medical care, squeezing
as much as it possibly can out of vulnerable people.
There is no rational reason, other than greed, for the pharmaceutical
industry to charge the American people $98.70 for a standard unit of
insulin that can be purchased in the United Kingdom for just $7.52, or
$242 for the asthma inhaler that can be purchased for just $27 in Canada.
So it’s no surprise that Moderna would put profits over public health.
[ [link removed]- ]But if we get loud and continue to organize, we can put a stop to this
unacceptable increase on the lifesaving, people-funded COVID-19 vaccine.
Click here to add your name to my petition, then send it to 3 loved ones
to spread the word.
Together, we can keep fighting for working people against the greed of
powerful special interests like Big Pharma, until we have access to free,
quality healthcare for all.
See my original email below.
In solidarity,
Senator Bernie Sanders
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[ [link removed]- ]Sign my petition to tell Moderna: No price-gouging the lifesaving,
people-funded COVID-19 vaccine! –Bernie Sanders
John,
Here we are, three years into the worst public health crisis in more than
100 years, where nearly 1.1 million Americans have died from COVID-19 and
over 100 million more have become ill, yet Moderna is about to put
outrageous corporate profits over public health.^1
Moderna is considering more than quadrupling the price of its
people-funded COVID vaccine from $26.36 per dose (which is already almost
10x more than it costs to produce) to an outrageous $130 per dose, when
it’s been estimated that the cost of producing the vaccine is now as low
as $2.85 per dose.^2 This is absolutely unacceptable.
[ [link removed]- ]Will you add your name to my petition demanding that Moderna NOT gouge
users of the people-funded COVID-19 vaccine?
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Increasing the Moderna vaccine price to $130, which is 4700% more than it
costs to produce, is especially unacceptable considering that the COVID-19
vaccines were jointly developed in partnership with scientists from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH)—a U.S. government agency that is
funded by U.S. taxpayers—and the federal government, which directly
provided $1.7 billion to Moderna for research and development.^3
If Moderna more than quadrupled the price of the vaccine, it would make it
unaffordable to the very residents of this country who made the production
of the vaccine possible, and it would also make the vaccine inaccessible
to countries across the world. That is disgraceful.
[ [link removed]- ]This is why we must come together to push back against this
unconscionable corporate greed. Add your name to my petition to tell
Moderna: No price-gouging this life-saving vaccine!
How many people have died and will die from COVID-19 as a result of
limited access to these lifesaving vaccines? In the midst of a deadly
pandemic, restricting access to this much-needed vaccine is
unconscionable. This is why Moderna must NOT increase the price of the
people-funded COVID-19 vaccine!
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This huge, unnecessary increase would have devastating impacts and would
cause needless deaths and severe, long-term health challenges for so many
due to the millions of Americans not able to afford the vaccine. It would
make the vaccine unavailable and inaccessible for many millions of
uninsured and underinsured Americans (especially low-income people, people
with disabilities, Black communities, and communities of color) who won’t
be able to afford it.
The price increase of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine would have a
significantly negative impact on the budgets of Medicaid, Medicare, and
other government programs that will continue covering the vaccine without
cost-sharing for patients. It would cost taxpayers BILLIONS of dollars,
and the outrageous price boost would increase private health insurance
premiums—all while Moderna is able to produce the vaccines at a low
cost.^4 In a country where people don’t have access to free health care,
this is very dangerous.
[ [link removed]- ]Will you sign my petition to demand that Moderna stop putting profits
over people and stop the increase of the people-funded COVID-19 vaccine?
And in the midst of the worst public health crisis in the U.S., and while
1 out of 5 Americans cannot afford the medicine prescribed by their
doctors, Moderna has made over $19 BILLION in profits in the last two
years and used those profits to provide incredibly extravagant
compensation packages to the CEO and other top officials at the company.
The Moderna CEO even became a multibillionaire as a direct result of
Moderna’s COVID vaccine, and several Moderna chairmen, co-founders, and
investors are now COVID billionaires, too.^5
Let’s be clear: The purpose of the recent taxpayer investment in Moderna
was to protect our health and lives, not to turn a handful of corporate
executives and investors into multibillionaires.
[ [link removed]- ]This is why we are urgently calling for Moderna to NOT gouge users of
the life-saving, people-funded COVID-19 vaccine! Click here to add your
name to my petition, then send it to 3 loved ones to spread the word.
In solidarity,
Senator Bernie Sanders
Sources:
1. "Big Pharma Greed’s (sic) Knows No Bounds," The Nation, January 20,
2023
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2. Ibid.
3. "'Outrageous': Bernie Sanders calls out Moderna for proposed Covid
vaccine price hike," CNN, accessed January 25, 2023
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4. "Moderna May Raise Covid-19 Vaccine Price Up To $130, Bernie Sanders
Calls It ‘Outrageous,'" Forbes, January 18, 2023
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5. "Sanders calls Moderna plan to raise price of COVID vaccine
'unacceptable corporate greed'," VermontBiz, January 10, 2023
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