{"id":7542,"date":"2024-09-03T17:16:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7542"},"modified":"2024-09-03T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:16:29","slug":"coronavirus-vaccines-once-free-are-now-pricey-for-uninsured-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/03\/coronavirus-vaccines-once-free-are-now-pricey-for-uninsured-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus vaccines, once free, are now pricey for uninsured people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/09\/03\/covid-vaccine-bridge-access-program-expires-cdc\/\">Washington Post<\/a> The elimination of the Bridge Access Program means some low-income Americans must pay up to $200 for an updated shot. As updated<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/08\/22\/new-coronavirus-vaccine-covid\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;coronavirus vaccines&nbsp;<\/a>hit U.S. pharmacy shelves, adults without health insurance are discovering the shots are no longer free, instead costing up to $200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/04\/18\/coronavirus-vaccines-free-uninsured-biden-bridge-program\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_69&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0Bridge Access Program<\/a>\u00a0covering the cost of coronavirus vaccines for uninsured and underinsured people ran out of funding. Now, Americans with low incomes are weighing whether they can afford to shore up immunity against an unpredictable virus that is no longer a public health emergency but continues to cause\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/12\/31\/long-covid-symptoms-treatment-research\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long-term complications<\/a>\u00a0and hospitalizations and kill tens of thousands of people a year. The program\u2019s elimination marks the latest tear in a safety net that once ensured people could protect themselves against the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0regardless of their financial situation. Health experts worry that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/imz-managers\/coverage\/covidvaxview\/interactive\/adults.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paltry 22 percent rate<\/a>\u00a0of adults staying up-to-date on vaccines will erode further. And they fear that the roughly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aspe.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/e497c623e5a0216b31291cd37063df1d\/NHIS-Q3-2023-Data-Point-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 million<\/a>\u00a0people without health insurance in the nation will be especially vulnerable to covid because they tend to be in poorer health and avoid medical care when sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/09\/03\/covid-vaccine-bridge-access-program-expires-cdc\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"IDkQhDDXfaw S  gDAYSi rxfgwIlksm\">IDkQhDDXfaw S  gDAYSi rxfgwIlksm<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post The elimination of the Bridge Access Program means some low-income Americans must pay up to $200 for an updated shot. As updated&nbsp;coronavirus vaccines&nbsp;hit U.S. pharmacy shelves, adults without health insurance are discovering the shots are no longer free, instead costing up to $200. The federal\u00a0Bridge Access Program\u00a0covering the cost of coronavirus vaccines for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7543,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions\/7543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}