South Korea has actually been doing a pretty good job of dealing with the COVID19 outbreak. According to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there’s a very good reason for that:
Want to know one major reason why South Korea has had stellar rapid response and quickly produced & scaled up to 10k+ tests/day?
They have a single payer, #MedicareForAll system.
We don’t.
Please remember why it’s so important for us to fight for healthcare as a human right.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 12, 2020
The answer’s been in front of us this whole time, you guys. We just weren’t as smart as AOC, so we didn’t see it.
This is 100% crap. https://t.co/eBxxAHkGgW
— HouseRepEEE (@EEElverhoy) March 12, 2020
200%, even.
Now do Italy
— Haus (@HausSante) March 12, 2020
What kind of healthcare system does Italy have?
— Leonydus Johnson (@LeonydusJohnson) March 12, 2020
Italy also has single payer. https://t.co/Y3iWuMq24v
— Alexandra R. (@Alexa_MRo) March 12, 2020
✍?italy✍?has✍?single✍?payer✍?health✍?care✍? https://t.co/nrKNLN2qmb
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) March 12, 2020
??? So does Italy
— Duh Wrench (@PaulGavigan4) March 12, 2020
So does Italy. How’s that working out?
— Hans Dancin (@HansDancin) March 12, 2020
Italy has single-payer. How's that working out?
— PreviouslyKnownAsSomeoneElse (@DryHumorDryBeef) March 12, 2020
Hasn’t worked out terribly well so far, has it, AOC?
That is absolutely not the reason. Italy has a similar system and was daily overwhelmed. Try getting some facts right, once in a while
— cloud-gineer (@rationalthink3r) March 12, 2020
Btw; you don't know what you're talking about. But that's not new, now is it? We don't have the tests because we weren't patroning enough, probably.
— PreviouslyKnownAsSomeoneElse (@DryHumorDryBeef) March 12, 2020
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