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Here’s the phone number for Walmart in Lansing Michigan. Tell me if you get a different price. You probably won’t. 517 622 1451. In fact, I’ll do the legwork
by portpecos 5y ago
Here’s the phone number for Walmart in Lansing Michigan. Tell me if you get a different price. You probably won’t.
517 622 1451.
In fact, I’ll do the legwork for you and report to you exactly what they say. I’ll be right back.
Update:
I was wrong! Massive price deduction. It will cost me only $567 for 3 shots total!! That’s such a small amount of money for rural America right? An entire month’s small apartment rent for a vaccine. And Medicaid and ACA still don’t cover it.
- mattkrause 5y agoRight...because another program covers it instead: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/payment.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/payment.html Click through to the FAQ to see a) a list of covered vaccines AND b) the statement that they're free of cost for "Medicaid-eligible" kids.
- SamReidHughes 5y agoSomebody is still paying for it.
- ceejayoz 5y agoThe reduction in expensive-to-treat cervical cancers is paying for it.
- arcticbull 5y agoSeriously, haha. "Who's paying for all those COVID vaccines?!" - the people who aren't on ventilators. It's almost like socialized medicine works.
- SamReidHughes 5y agoBut in this case, people who aren't sluts are paying for sluts.
- mattkrause 5y agoUgh no. That framing is a big part of the problem. Pre-vaccine, about 80% of adults end up with it[0]. It’s just that it’s usually (grossly) asymptomatic, so the prevalence is less obvious. However, not seeing a wart doesn’t necessarily say much about cancer risk. So it’s not everyone paying for “sluts”; it’s everyone paying for everyone so that no one pays a lot when they lose the cancer lottery. [0] Literally in bold here https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stats.htm https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stats.htm
- portpecos 5y agoRight, all your programs cover HPV vaccines for the under 26 market. Medicaid and ACA doesn't cover HPV vaccines for people over 26. The over 26 population is 70% of the US population?
- ceejayoz 5y agoIt was only approved in 2018 for over-26, so it'd be a bit rich to blame that on the ACA. Yell at your insurer if they don't cover it.
- ceejayoz 5y agoDid a bit more Googling. https://www.healthcare.gov/preventive-care-adults/ https://www.healthcare.gov/preventive-care-adults/ > All Marketplace health plans and many other plans must cover the following list of preventive services without charging you a copayment or coinsurance. This is true even if you haven’t met your yearly deductible. #15 indicates the HPV vaccine for adults is now included.
- portpecos 5y agoNew price update, if you're over 26 with Medicaid or ACA in Blue Wall Michigan: http://www.med.umich.edu/1info/FHP/practiceguides/adult.imms/Current-HPV-Vaccine-Insurance-Coverage.pdf http://www.med.umich.edu/1info/FHP/practiceguides/adult.imms... Then it's $666. $195 per shot + $27 administrative fee per shot x 3 shots.
- ceejayoz 5y agoThat document is dated August 13, 2008. Two years prior to the ACA, and before the vaccine was approved in a) males and b) 27+.