U.S. CDC to end free COVID vaccine program for uninsured early due to funding loss

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

A federal program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured and underinsured adults is shutting down this summer, before the fall rollout of updated vaccines to fight against the latest variants. 

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said its Bridge Access Program will end in August because of a lack of funding. The program has provided more than 1.4 million free COVID-19 vaccines since it launched in September 2023 at a cost of more than $1 billion. 

 

The Bridge Access Program was meant to be temporary and was originally scheduled to end in December 2024.  

 

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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4670459-cdc-ending-free-covid-vaccines-uninsured/

 

 

[Red Phoenix]

Good News!

[herfiehandbag]

4 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

Good News!

Indeed, another limb hacked off the somewhat palsied tree which is an attempt to provide health care to those too poor to afford the obscene charges of the American "healthcare" industry!

 

A country which flaunts almost unlimited military power, certainly several times that of its nearest rival, a country which swans around the world, poking it's nose in and telling other countries to conduct their affairs, a country which claims to be the world's most free, most open democracy, a country which has put man on the moon, and still maintains a massive space programme, yet a country which, some ( myself included) would say obscenely, cannot provide the most basic healthcare to its citizens, and which happily accepts the corrosive effects of  utter poverty and hopelessness amongst its most unfortunate peoples.

 

I watched an interview with Bernie Saunders the other evening. Goodness me, didn't he talk sense!

[Robert Paulson]

They can’t even give them away for free who the hell is going to pay for them

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Sounds like the COVID vaccines program for the un- and under-insured was doing pretty substantial business... until Congress rescinded the federal funding that was being used to run the program for 25 to 30 million eligible Americans:

 

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The program has provided more than 1.4 million free COVID-19 vaccines since it launched in September 2023 at a cost of more than $1 billion. 

 

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The fiscal 2024 government funding bill rescinded $4.3 billion in COVID-19 funding that was never obligated, and a CDC spokesperson indicated the agency had been using some of it to run the Bridge program.  

 

“Due to Congressional rescissions of COVID-19 funds in the FY 2024 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, difficult decisions had to be made about the future of CDC activities supported by those funds,” David Daigle told The Hill in an email. 

 

 

[impulse]

They provided 1.4 million doses at a cost of over $1 Billion?

 

Do some math on that one...

[BigBruv]

5 hours ago, impulse said:

They provided 1.4 million doses at a cost of over $1 Billion?

 

Do some math on that one...

 

Sounds ridiculous but makes sense in the context of decisions being made by boomers:

 

They don't care about the costs to younger generations - as long as they can keep popping as many viagras as poss before the inevitable journey to hell

 

 

 

Edited May 23 by BigBruv

[Robert Paulson]

If I get the shot can I still get a free order of fries? Or did that offer expire?