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no im suggesting that 'yolo lol we have more beds' is meaningless if u end up with worse outcomes. and let me be clear that 66k per 1M cases and 807 deaths per 1M is better than 180K per 1M And 2515 per 1M.



You won't really know which is better until 2025, 2030, sometime like that for total deaths due to COVID numbers. Canada is hardly out of the woods. Push the date to 2040, 2050 if you look at things like what were the long-term impacts on different policies on people who didn't die of COVID.

You still aren't engaging with the point under discussion, though, which has become publicized due to COVID but exists independently of it. Spending more on healthcare contributes to having an overall better health care system, but the US suffers due to large problems of access and distribution. Regardless of payment structure, I would argue in favor of continuing to spend more on health care than other nations; we have the money, it's a good use of it.




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