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Transcripts for CNN New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar 20210831 11:43:00

Individuals who go get their vaccine. what does it actually cost? we dug into that. medicare will reimburse 150 bucks, 40 bucks per shot, administrative costs, 35 more dollars if they come to your home to administer it. on average, and 98% through june and july of covid patients were unvaccinated, on average what does it cost, about $22,000 for this hospitalization, 150 times as much as what medicare reimburses for the shot. someone goes on a ventilator, it can be up to 300 times the cost here. so, i mean, in terms of if you just look at this from a purely financial standpoint, there is no question in anybody s mind, it s free, really, you might get 150 bucks back in some states to get the shot compared to tense of thousands of dollars for the hospitalization. i have never been good at math. i was just going to say the same thing. but the math here is extraordinary. it s obvious, you get paid in some instances to get vaccinated. that s why it blows my mind, ....

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