How much money did you spend since last year getting tested for Covid and also getting the vaccination shots?
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Zero. Never had a test. I just got the vaccine yesterday. No charge.
NOthing. Vaccination is free and the Covid tests I had before surgery must have been covered by Meidcare or supplement. I never saw a bill for them.
Nothing. I never had to be tested for covid and the vaccination was covered by insurance.
I did pay $120 for a covid antbody test, but this was not to diagnose if I actively had covid, but to to see if I had had covid. I expected it to be negative, but I was having some health problems so I went ahead and did it.
There are places where I live charging $90 for covid testing. I think it is terrible. Most places here it is free.
€80, for one PCR test and one quick test.
One PCR was free (in Holland).
The forthcoming vaccin shots will be free as well.
Since last week there are self tests for sale in the pharmacies; don’t know the price, and in case of a positive result a PCR test will be needed subsequently.
$0.00
I’ve had three tests, all free at the CVS Drive-Thru and the vaccine was free as well.
All those services – where I am, and most other places in the US too – have been free of charge.
But how much time I’ve spent finding locations, scheduling appointments, and waiting my turn is something else.
Nothing. My 2 tests were paid for, vaccine was free.
For my job, I’ve had a covid test about once a month since October of last year (or maybe it was September? Can’t remember). A couple of times I also had an antibody blood test at the same time because it was offered. They’ve all been covered by my insurance, and if they hadn’t been, they would have been covered by my county (or state? Not actually sure. But I wouldn’t have had to pay).
Vaccines are also free in my area.
I’m curious about the impetus for this question since everyone who’s answered got theirs free.
@janbb Me too. Almost said something in my response.
$0. I was first tested in the emergency room after a heart attack. I started working at Amazon in January, and they have free onsite testing. I do it every other Sunday night. My vaccine (first dose last week, yahoo!) was free, too.
I got Hydroxychloroquine free when working with Samaritan’s Purse during clean-up / disaster relief from a hurricane in Nashville. But since Trump said something good about it, saying anything good about Hydroxychloroquine will get you banned from most social media.
I am getting the second dose of the vaccine in a week. Neither I, nor anyone I know, has been charged for anything. So much for the conspiracy theories that Trump was conspiring with Big Pharma to give them a huge economic boost through Operation Warp Speed.
Nobody in the U.S. has to pay anything for tests or vaccine,
@Yellowdog The vaccine companies are paid. I don’t know if they make a big profit or not on the vaccine, but they are paid. The companies that test for COVID are paid also.
The “conspiracy theories” were about Trump dropping company names and people buying and selling stocks and that the government was funding research and paying for the actual administration of testing and vaccinations. That is happening when insurance doesn’t pay. Basically, universal (government) coverage if insurance wasn’t picking up the tab.
”But since Trump said something good about it, saying anything good about Hydroxychloroquine will get you banned from most social media.”
Wrong.
Not because Trump necessarily said something about (which, okay, he did, and it was BS), but because there’s simply no reason to administer this stuff to treat Covid-19 because it doesn’t do shite.
“So much for the conspiracy theories that Trump was conspiring with Big Pharma to give them a huge economic boost . . ”
Yes the company with financial ties to Trump was selling Hydroxychloroquine. The Dispatch
Hydroxychloroquine, of course. is not a brand name.
Most pharmaceutical companies manufacture it. It is very inexpensive, and has been used successfully in many countries many weeks before Trump mentioned it, In France, China, Israel, and Belgium it was the main treatment
Israel donated a lot to us and held more in reserve because we didn’t have enough.
@Yellowdog As requested many times, how about some links to back up your assertions?
No fees for anything. Free masks. Has anyone noticed that all the naysayers forgot to bitch about the evils of socialized medicine?
@janbb Last December I had to rush getting tested and without insurance I paid this 24 hour clinic 200 bucks for doctor’s fee and one rapid test which took less than an hour? Result was negative. The clinic also gave me a second test for free this time. Got the result three days later.
I don’t have a car and though I got my Moderna shots free from a place 50 minutes away I spent around 240 bucks total for Lyft for those two shots.
The Governor of our State have said that in a few weeks people would only have to travel about 5 miles to get a shot. Hope he’s right.
^^ Thanks. I did pay $100 for a driver to take me to mine because it wasn’t a place I felt comfortable driving to but I didn’t figure that was the cost of the shot.
The only time I have had to pay for Covid test was for my daughter. She needed a test within a certain number of hours before returning to school, and the place we go started charging for rapid results tests that were not medically necessary. It was $160.
Have not received vaccine.
@mazingerz88 You make a good point about travel costs. A lot of people where I live went to Orlando for vaccination, so if they took the turnpike that’s $10 more or less round trip, plus gas, let’s say another $12—$15 round trip.
I was at the cardiologist last week and a patient in the waiting room was composing he was given Broward County (4 hours away if you don’t stop) for an appointment and instead of him turning it down he took it for he and his wife and spent $1,000 between travel and hotel two trips. He says he wants to sue the state. I say he shouldn’t have done it.
Your situation, not having a car, we have that situation with some people here. The homebound were able to get home vaccination, but it only just started two weeks ago, so it took patience.
People in your situation wound up paying for transportation, going with a friend, or waiting until vaccination was closer. That does seem unfair. I’m not sure how it would have been solved, but still unfair. Are you in a very urban area? Should they have had a site near a bus stop or subway and they didn’t?
@JLeslie You know Montgomery County. :) I would have been very impressed if Hogan did much better but he’s probably doing his best already. As it is right now most people are driving to Six Flags and in Baltimore where the biggest vaccinations sites are it seems. Mine was at a CVS in Dunkirk, Maryland. First time I heard there was such a place.
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@mazingerz88 I forgot you’re in MoCo. I know a friend of mine drove her mom 45 minutes for her vaccination. They live in Montgomery Village, I don’t remember which city she finally got her appointment. A month later my friend secured an appointment closer to her house for herself when she was eligible. My parents were vaccinated at Bethesda Naval/Walter Reed fairly early on, so their experience is different than most people there, but the drive is 25–30 minutes, plus parking, and walking to the location of the vaccination area. It’s not as simple as parking at a grocery store.
Maryland didn’t sound that much different than Florida. Sitting online trying to get an appointment. I don’t know the other options there.
Could you have taken the metro, but chose not to use public transportation? I ask because since you don’t have a car I assume you usually use public transportation. I never heard of Dunkirk either, so I assume that’s not on the metro line.
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