Get $100 For A Vaccine? Cash Incentives Work For Some, Others Not So Much

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President Biden has called on states and localities to do more to encourage people to get vaccinated, including paying them $100.

For many states, offering incentives to get the jab is not new. From baseball tickets to pre-rolled marijuana joints and even lotteries totaling up to $5 million in some cases, several spots in the U.S. have gotten creative to get vaccinations in arms.

But do incentives work? Yes... and no.

Financial incentives have motivated some people to get vaccinated. Ohio's announcement of the Vax-a-Million lottery boosted vaccination rates by 28% in less than a week, according to the Ohio Department of Health. The state has also already offered $100 incentive programs, as have New Mexico and Colorado.

Surveys done by UCLA researchers reported that around one-third of unvaccinated individuals said they would get a vaccine for cash.

But in states such as Arkansas, vaccination rates remain low despite incentive programs. And while incentives in other states have had better luck, their success has been short-lived in many cases, including Ohio's.