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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by thu2111 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:32AM (#25287209)
No it isn't. Healthcare isn't infinitely expensive, the world is full of people who can pay cash for healthcare (or take an insurance policy with a very high excess which approximates the same thing).
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by jason0597 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:45AM (#25287637)
>the world is full of people who can pay cash for healthcare

Are you sure about that? The median income in the US is less than $33k.

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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by thu2111 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:54AM (#25288809)
"Full of people" is an idiom, it means there are lots of them. It doesn't mean all of them. There are lots of cheap medical interventions and lots of people who earn more than $33k a year.
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