Taxing the Unvaccinated: Evidence, Ethics and Policy-Making

Around the world, states continue to struggle to identify viable pathways to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. As the situation evolved and vaccines became available in the global north, many states began imposing restrictions on the unvaccinated, and made vaccination a requirement for citizens to participate in activities such as travelling or dining at a restaurant. More recently, some governments have moved toward imposing fines or taxes on the unvaccinated. For example, Austria fines unvaccinated persons around $5,150 every three months. Singapore, which like Canada has a universal health care system, now bills unvaccinated people for hospital stays related to COVID-19. With Quebec’s announcement that it will impose a tax on unvaccinated people, the debate has landed on Canadian soil.
This panel will explore the medical and ethical issues that are raised by practices such as taxing or billing the unvaccinated, as well as the viability, desirability and legality of such policies in the Canadian context.

[@neththom999]

Bizarre how people like this think. Even the detractors of the extreme position nonetheless quickly make it known that theyre not AGAINST technocratically manipulating people, and would never consider individuals over the group

[@eprohoda]

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