Paying people to take COVID vaccine is wrong, say health law professors | The College Fix

Paying people to take COVID vaccine is wrong, say health law professors | The College Fix

A pair of health law professors from Saint Louis University recently wrote an opinion piece in The Conversation that argued monetary incentives for taking the coronavirus vaccine could have an adverse effect.

The pair criticized proposals from economists such as Robert Litan and Greg Mankiw to pay participants between $1,000 to $1,500 to take the vaccine. Litan speculated in a piece for the Brookings Institution that $1,000 would work, though as the Saint Louis University professors noted, he called the number a “hunch.”...Read all.