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Originally posted by KillerYoda
Supposedly SARS might fuck up the Canadian healthcare system more, according to the news. The, I guess, socialist system they running gave them poor response time to the epidemic.
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If you had a clue of what you were talking about you would be dangerous.
At the peak, there were 200 and some odd people in Toronto with SARS or suspected of having SARS. The number is now less than 100.
I think our system can handle 100 or 200 sick people.
Re poor response time:
One old lady who was 78 came back from Hong Kong with it. She went home, infected her son. She gets sick, they take her to the hospital.
Meanwhile the son infects 22 other people, then they take him to the hospital.
They both end up dying.
Now in Vancouver, there was one guy who came back from Hong Kong and they caught him right off the bat.
The toronto instance was unfortunate that they didn't catch the old lady in time, but that's the bad luck of the draw.
American phobia of a national health care system stems from what you have been lead to believe by private insurance companies and the pharmaceuticals who dont' want to end the gravy train.
Keep in mind that every other G-7 nation has a national health care system. Only the USA does not.
You will be hard pressed to find too many Canadians who would trade our system for yours.