"The story of the Moderna vaccine isn't one of a company taking huge gambles with shareholder dollars. It's the story of the US government giving billions and billions of dollars to a private firm, which will now *charge* the US government – and the American people – a 4,460% markup on the resulting medicine." https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity #covid
@actualham It was stupid for the government to give them money without a signed contract with regards to pricing.
@CStamp I mean, are you sure there WASN'T such a contract? I didn't see mention of it in the article.
I would be 0% surprised to hear that this is exactly what all parties expected and intended.
@volkris @actualham If there was, someone should be held to task. Taxpayer money was used, taxpayers shouldn't later be extorted.
@CStamp yep, I agree, but the problem is that the way the system is set up, it's mainly up to the people we elect to Congress, and we keep reelecting the same jerks.
WE need to stop reelecting them. That's where the accountability starts. But we let congresspeople escape accountability for authorizing these programs, and we re-elect them, so
::shrug::
Yes, we should hold them accountable. But we don't.
We get the government we vote for.
