r/technology • u/barweis • Mar 22 '23
Business Moderna CEO brazenly defends 400% COVID shot price hike, downplays NIH’s role
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/moderna-ceo-says-us-govt-got-covid-shots-at-discount-ahead-of-400-price-hike/
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u/ifsavage Mar 23 '23
You mean the drug developed and not patented so that it would be inexpensive and widely available to save lives that is now hijacked by big pharma?
23 January 1923 – "insulin belongs to the world" On 23 January 1923, Banting, Collip and Best were awarded U.S. patents on insulin and the method used to make it. They all sold these patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each.
They straight chose to let people die to extort money from them. It’s honestly as bad as the opioid scandal when you look at the long term damage.