in 2019 I would have agreed with you.
In iceland you will not be charged for cancer treatment, but the medical costs of getting a long term illness in Iceland are not trivial.
Add that to loss of income and the situation for many chronically ill is actually so terrible that laughing at the US is not something Iceland can afford.
And covid has painfully displayed exactly how poorly managed the hospitals are and how starved the health care system really is.
The equivalent of a bus accident will put the healthcare system on its knees or 80 people needing intensive care.
of course Iceland has more hospital beds than 80, but it cannot handle a disease that may put 80 people in ICU ( not counting ventialtion here at all, just intensive care ).
I think many in Iceland, myself included, are a bit in shock of exactly how poorly managed and starved the health care system is.
Up until 2019 I laughed at the dumb americans and their awful health care, man did I get my sit-upon whopped in the past 2 years.
Icelands is so bad that we are regularily filling hospital break rooms and garages with patients.
THat is on a normal non-influenze season. Let alone sars-cov-2 introduction.
I suspect Canada is having a similar realization as we are. Free care in all its honour.
Starved free care, heh...... Shame on us. Really. Shame on us.
of course Iceland has more hospital beds than 80, but it cannot handle a disease that may put 80 people in ICU ( not counting ventialtion here at all, just intensive care ).
I think many in Iceland, myself included, are a bit in shock of exactly how poorly managed and starved the health care system is.
Up until 2019 I laughed at the dumb americans and their awful health care, man did I get my sit-upon whopped in the past 2 years.
Icelands is so bad that we are regularily filling hospital break rooms and garages with patients. THat is on a normal non-influenze season. Let alone sars-cov-2 introduction.
I suspect Canada is having a similar realization as we are. Free care in all its honour. Starved free care, heh...... Shame on us. Really. Shame on us.