COVID shot to cost $150
The updated Covid vaccine will not only not be free, it will cost $150 a pop unless you’re in one of the high‑risk groups.
C’est la faute du fédéral, inevitably.
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Ian 09:23 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
If Quebec ever does seperate they’re goign to miss being able to use that excuse. For all our duplication of federal services any actual responsibility seems oddly elusive.
maggie rose 10:00 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Making the Covid vaccine more difficult to get is not good, even for those high-risk groups who can get it. We all share air. Is this fallout from the bad example to the south of us?
MarcG 10:30 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
I bet if you asked Boileau, Quach, and their ilk if Covid was airborne, can harm children, affects all organ systems including the brain, can cause Long Covid even in vaccinated people, etc, they would deny, deny, deny. Imagine the risk they would be taking by admitting to those established scientific facts now that everyone and their kids have been infected multiple times and they’re on record as having actively promoted pro-virus policies. That would take some serious moral fortitude (and expensive legal defense?). Limiting access to vaccines is just the next step in the long process of pandemic denial.
Here’s a choice quote from the CBC article on this subject: “[Boileau] clarified that public health is not “against” vaccination for the general population.” Sounds a bit like Legault claiming he’s not racist while passing racist policies.
Kate 10:48 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
It’s probably to cut costs. The CAQ government is not the best, but they’re not anti‑vaxxers.
MarcG 10:51 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
If the policy reduces the number of people who get vaccinated then I consider the policymaker to be anti-vaccine.
MarcG 11:44 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Here’s a totally unrelated story about a family suing Sepaq for not protecting them from being seriously injured by smoke exposure in their park. https://archive.is/5QW3S.
jeather 11:50 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Sure, it’s to cut (miniscule in the context of the entire budget) costs — but they can afford the shots. (MNAs just got 10k increases this year.) And most of the costs now are likely long covid effects, something that is the next parliament’s problem. Honestly they could just not have announced much when the new vaccines came out and they’d probably spend the same amount.
At first I thought this was a leak to see how people responded, I suppose it could still have been, but the response was not particularly negative.
Chris 15:41 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
MarcG, you’re entitled to your covid policy opinions of course, but I hope you realise you’re way out there, outside probably 99% of the population.
There are many many many things that it would be nice if medicare covered for free, but we have to prioritize. Flu vaccine is also not free. Hopefully they’ve done the math and this is a good tradeoff.
MarcG 16:04 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
Thanks for your concern, Chris. Let me know when being “way out there” has any bearing on the truth.
jeather 16:49 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
The flu vaccine is (was?) free to anyone in Quebec who wants it. I do not trust for a second that they are correctly looking at costs of long covid, though I am sure they are correct that the cost of the vaccines is higher than the cost of hospitalizations. I do not know how or if they include regular time off work for milder cases.
SMD 18:47 on 2025-09-18 Permalink
@Chris, the flu vaccine has been free for a couple of years now. And RSV too, for the elderly.