Dear John,
Moderna just announced plans to more than *quadruple* the price of its COVID vaccine to over $130 per dose, despite the fact that it costs the corporation only $2.85 per dose to make.1
Sign Senator Bernie Sanders’ petition to call for Moderna NOT to increase the price of the people-funded COVID-19 vaccine.
Three years into the worst public health crisis in more than a century, Moderna has chosen to put corporate profits over human lives. In the last three years, almost 1.1 million Americans have died from COVID-19, and over 100 million more have become ill.
If Moderna more than quadrupled the price of the vaccine, it would become unaffordable to the very residents of this country who paid the taxes and made the production of the vaccine possible, and it would also make the vaccine inaccessible to countries across the world. That is disgraceful. Sign here to demand it stop.
How many people will die if this unconscionable decision takes place?
Let’s be clear: The purpose of the recent taxpayer investment in Moderna was to protect our health, not to turn a handful of corporate executives and investors into multibillionaires. While one out of five 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 company officials. 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.2
The decision would also have an impact on Medicaid, Medicare, and other government programs that will continue to cover the vaccine, costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Moderna’s price-gouging will also force an increase in private insurance premiums. No one will go unaffected.
This is why we are urgently calling for Moderna to NOT price-gouge the lifesaving, people-funded COVID-19 vaccine! Click here to add your name to Bernie’s petition.
Sign Now
Thanks for all you do.
–MoveOn
Sources:
1. "Big Pharma Greed’s (sic) Knows No Bounds," The Nation, January 20, 2023 https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/big-pharma-greed-knows-no-bounds/
2. "Sanders calls Moderna plan to raise price of COVID vaccine 'unacceptable corporate greed'," Vermont Biz, January 10, 2023 https://vermontbiz.com/news/2023/january/10/sanders-calls-moderna-plan-raise-price-covid-vaccine-unacceptable-corporate
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