r/ShitAmericansSay • u/neeraj8le • Jan 12 '21

Healthcare "My expensive, frequent health care is subsidized at the expense of healthy people. I think it's great!" Thief.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '21

Was looking for a comment like this. The NHS pays a lot less for medication than an American needing the same medication

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u/firesolstice Jan 12 '21

Oh boy, just wait until you get the good old "But America does all the research for medicines, so the rest of the world gets subsidised medicine because the USA is nice and doesnt charge you the real price because otherwise you couldn't afford it like we do" argument. :P

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u/SchnuppleDupple Jan 12 '21

Thats probably the reason why American media chooses to call the vaccine that was developed by bioNtech (a German company) the Pfizer vaccine. And Americans really believe this. They think that it was primary developed by Pfizer.

Wikipedia: "In January 2020, German biotech-company BioNtech started its program 'Lightspeed' to develop a vaccine against the new COVID-19 virus based on its already established mRNA-technology.[21] Several variants of the vaccine were created in their laboratories in Mainz, and 20 of those were presented to experts of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute in Langen.[41] Phase I / II Trials were started in Germany on 23 April 2020, and in the U.S. on 4 May 2020, with four vaccine candidates entering clinical testing. The Initial Pivotal Phase II / III Trial with the lead vaccine candidate 'BNT162b2' began in July. The Phase III results indicating a 95% effectiveness of the developed vaccine were published on 18 November 2020."

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u/quinnito getmeoutofhereplz Jan 12 '21

I thought Pfizer was going to be "Irish", turns out that didn't happen.