Analysis: Don’t Want a Vaccine? Be Prepared to Pay More for Insurance. | Kaiser Health News

Analysis: Don’t Want a Vaccine? Be Prepared to Pay More for Insurance. | Kaiser Health News: More than 97% of hospitalized patients last month were unvaccinated. Though the vaccines will not necessarily prevent you from catching the coronavirus, they are highly effective at assuring you will have a milder case and are kept out of the hospital. For this reason, there’s logic behind insurers’ waiver rollback: Why should patients be kept financially unharmed from what is now a preventable hospitalization, thanks to a vaccine that the government paid for and made available free of charge? It is now in many drugstores, it’s popping up at highway rest stops and bus stops, and it can be delivered and administered at home in parts of the country.