Albersask

[blackpowder]

" be given free of charge to dependent seniors, the immunocompromised and those on social assistance.
Albertans who live in congregated lodgings, like homeless shelters and group homes, will also continue to get COVID shots free of charge.

All other Albertans, including those over the age of 65, will be required to pay the full cost of the vaccine

$135M thrown out last season alone.
$110/
Govt managed "free" lines corporations pockets harder it seems

[chuckChuck]

Its poor public health policy to make people pay for vaccines.

Covid is still causing severe illness under age 65!

They just have to do a better job of matching supply to demand.

But of course this the government that effed up the children's tylenol purchases and wants to allow private clinics to charge excessively more than the public system so they can make more profit!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

They just have to do a better job of matching supply to demand.

You have had an epiphany.

How do you accomplish that in our public health care system in general?

No cost to the consumer.
No incentives to take responsibility for ones own health.
Finite human resources, and infrastructure.
Finite money.
Ever expanding treatments available.


How do you match potentially infinite demand, with finite supply?

[shtferbrains]

Its poor public health policy to make people pay for vaccines.

Covid is still causing severe illness under age 65!

Have you had your covid shot for this campaign, Chuck?

How many did you need to keep from getting severe illness?

How many times have you had COVID-19?

[cropgrower]

i know a good number of people that never took clot shot and never got china flu

[blackpowder]

0.4 hospitalizations/ 100,000 pop as of Jun 14.
About the same as crime by registered gun owners.
I've paid for vaccines when traveling.
Nobody said the important ones won't be available.
Whatever it really was, it's over.

[fjlip]

Its poor public health policy to make people pay for vaccines.

Covid is still causing severe illness under age 65!

They just have to do a better job of matching supply to demand.

But of course this the government that effed up the children's tylenol purchases and wants to allow private clinics to charge excessively more than the public system so they can make more profit!

Only sick or dead around here are vaxed to H!

[chuckChuck]

Is it so hard to match supply to demand?

Try ordering what looks like the a conservative amount of vaccines with the option to purchase more if demand exceeds the forecast. Jeez Danny is that so hard?

If Alberta can't do that they should let the kids go back to running a lemonade stand out in front of their house.

Instead of good good public health policy that saves lives and reduces the overall cost of healthcare, Danny is catering to her antiscience antivaxer base that thinks ivermectin is the cure for everything.

[Hamloc]

Is it so hard to match supply to demand?

Try ordering what looks like the a conservative amount of vaccines with the option to purchase more if demand exceeds the forecast. Jeez Danny is that so hard?

If Alberta can't do that they should let the kids go back to running a lemonade stand out in front of their house.

Instead of good good public health policy that saves lives and reduces the overall cost of healthcare, Danny is catering to her antiscience antivaxer base that thinks ivermectin is the cure for everything.

The hard part with matching supply with demand in relation to the Covid shot is that the demand continues to go down, making predicting supply more difficult.

[chuckChuck]

But not impossible.

Why charge for a vaccine that reduces healthcare cost and severe illness?

Because at their core the UCP is anti science and wants to privatize healthcare and let their friends make lots of profit.

This is an ideologically driven decision not one based on the evidence.

We have been providing free vaccines to children for generations and the benefits far out weigh the small costs. The same with the flu vaccine.

What's different with the covid vaccines?