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Originally Posted by J.OT13
I can understand many of your points, but there's a big difference between the U.S. private health care system where only the rich and those with good insurance can afford to go to the hospital. How many millions of Covid victims (who survived or have passed) were unable to access the health care U.S. system? In Canada, anyone has access to the system, so our hospitals that are already taxed in normal times, and in the case of some Quebec jurisdictions, are at the point of failure even without Covid, could not handle the influx.
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A lot of Canadians have this impression of US healthcare but it is far from true. The vast majority have insurance especially in this context as everyone over 65 does as well as the very poor. Regardless hospitals have to treat everyone.