By Miss Kubelik
Lots of folks in the US are suggesting that insurance companies refuse to cover the hospital bills of anti-vaxxers who get COVID. Sounds like a great idea, although the hospitals might not agree. If they care for these Trumpy idiots, they need to be reimbursed.
Canada, meanwhile, has a far saner system: universal healthcare. So without insurance companies to either provide or withhold coverage, Quebec has come up with an interesting way to teach a lesson to the 10 percent of the population that refuses the COVID vaccine without a valid medical reason.
A financial penalty — otherwise known as "a healthcare contribution."
"Right now, these [anti-vaxxers] put a very important burden on our healthcare network, and I think it's normal that a majority is asking that there be a consequence," Premier François Legault said. The provincial government is still determining the exact amount of the "contribution," but word dans la rue is that it's going to be hefty.
Good. Healthcare systems are going through hell right now, in both Canada or the US, and it's mostly invisible to the average citizen. It's tough to share video and other visuals from hospitals when you have to follow patient privacy rules — so we're left with verbal testimonials from exhausted, angry and frustrated doctors and nurses, when we all know a picture is worth a thousand words.
For Americans who see Legault's solution as over the top, think about this. If you've been diligently vaxxed and boosted and masked and social-distanced, how would you feel if you got in a car accident, or had a heart attack or a fall at home, and had to go to an ER that was overrun with unvaccinated COVID patients? If you were a cancer patient, how would you like it if your treatment was delayed because your local hospital didn't have the bandwidth to care for you? Because that's what's happening. Bien joué, Quebec. We cats PURR.
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