{"id":738,"date":"2023-02-16T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/moderna-announces-no-cost-vaccines-for-uninsured-underinsured-ahead-of-senate-hearing\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:02:36","slug":"moderna-announces-no-cost-vaccines-for-uninsured-underinsured-ahead-of-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/moderna-announces-no-cost-vaccines-for-uninsured-underinsured-ahead-of-senate-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderna Announces No-Cost Vaccines for Uninsured, Underinsured Ahead of Senate Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moderna announced on Wednesday that it will provide COVID-19 vaccines at no cost to uninsured and underinsured people through a patient assistance program beginning in May. The announcement comes ahead of a planned Senate hearing on March 22nd, at which Moderna's CEO, St\u00e9phane Bancel, is set to testify on the company's reported plans to increase the price of the vaccine.<sup id=\"cite_ref1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"#cite_note1-0\">[0]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The program, which Moderna did not describe in detail, would also provide insured patients with the vaccine at no cost, despite possible price hikes. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is set to question Bancel at the hearing, which is entitled &#8220;Taxpayers Paid Billions For It: So Why Would Moderna Consider Quadrupling the Price of the COVID Vaccine?<sup id=\"cite_ref1-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"#cite_note1-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>&#8220;outrageous,&#8221;outrageous,&#8221;greed&#8221;greed<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"cite_note1-0\">0. <\/span>&#8220;Sanders to grill Moderna CEO over proposed COVID vaccine price hike&#8221; The Hill, 15 Feb. 2023, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3859975-sanders-to-grill-moderna-ceo-over-proposed-covid-vaccine-price-hike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3859975-sanders-to-grill-moderna-ceo-over-proposed-covid-vaccine-price-hike\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"cite_note1-1\">1. <\/span>&#8220;Moderna CEO St\u00e9phane Bancel will testify before Senate next month on Covid vaccine price hike&#8221; CNBC, 15 Feb. 2023, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/02\/15\/moderna-ceo-bancel-will-testify-before-senate-on-covid-vaccine-price-hike.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/02\/15\/moderna-ceo-bancel-will-testify-before-senate-on-covid-vaccine-price-hike.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"cite_note1-2\">2. <\/span>&#8220;Bernie Sanders calls on Moderna CEO to testify on proposed vaccine price hike&#8221; The Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/15\/bernie-sanders-calls-moderna-ceo-testify-proposed-vaccine-price-hike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/15\/bernie-sanders-calls-moderna-ceo-testify-proposed-vaccine-price-hike\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderna announced on Wednesday that it will provide COVID-19 vaccines at no cost to uninsured and underinsured people through a patient assistance program beginning in May. The announcement comes ahead of a planned Senate hearing on March 22nd, at which Moderna&#8217;s CEO, St\u00e9phane Bancel, is set to testify on the company&#8217;s reported plans to increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheretobuymarijuanaseeds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}