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Should You Be Paid for Getting a Covid-19 Vaccine?
It’s an inexpensive way to save lives, but some argue it’s subtly coercive
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On Nov. 5, Britain’s Journal of Medical Ethics published an article by Julian Savulescu, a University of Oxford philosophy professor, arguing that the government should pay people to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
The American economist Robert Litan, a Brookings Institution nonresident senior fellow, had the same pay-per-jab idea in August, and he put a number on it: $1,000 per person.