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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by mrguyorama on Thursday May 25, 2023 @04:08PM (#36075498)
The agreement was $20 a vaccine, which IMO is perfectly fine. Making a profit from doing a necessary thing is very capitalism. Remember that shareholders were very upset they didn't make MORE profit.
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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by ipaddr on Thursday May 25, 2023 @04:16PM (#36075583)
Canada paid $175 per dose.

https://www.oxfam.ca/news/vaccine-monopolies-make-cost-of-va...

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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by mrguyorama on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:00PM (#36076154)
That's likely the price executives and shareholders would have wanted for the US. I wonder what leverage Trump held over Pfizer to get the $20 price. It's a genuine negotiating win from someone who considers just not paying your contractors to be good business and negotiating.
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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by hammock on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:51PM (#36076733)
Pfizer also got billions of dollars in free and taxpayer-funded advertising
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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by ertian on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:20PM (#36078985)
Taxpayers got billions in life-saving government information, too. It wasn't for the benefit of Pfizer that the government ran those campaigns.
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