NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, about plans to make coronavirus vaccines free to Medicare and Medicaid recipients.The Trump administration is announcing today that it will make coronavirus vaccines available at no cost to Americans on Medicare and Medicaid, including the cost of actually getting the shots. The plan will apply to any vaccine that gets emergency authorization.
VERMA: That will come from the Medicare trust fund. This is consistent with how we pay for vaccines. Congress made it very clear that they wanted Medicare beneficiaries to have access to the COVID vaccine at no cost, and so the regulations that we are putting out today make good on that promise. And the other thing...
CORNISH: Is there any thought to waiving the cost sharing for those often poorer Medicare beneficiaries who contract the virus and they don't have any kind of supplemental coverage?
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The idea that there would be an out of pocket cost to either group is idiotic and par for the course.
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