More than 30 million Americans have gone without health insurance in the last year. Several other high-income nations cover their entire populations for a lot less money than the U.S. spends. But does a universal health care system help in a pandemic? For answers, William Brangham, along with producers Jason Kane and Claire Mufson, look to our northern neighbor Canada and its single-payer system.
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More than 30 million Americans have gone without health insurance during the pandemic.
We recently looked at how several other high-income nations cover their entire populations for a lot less money than we spend. But does a universal health care system help a country respond to a pandemic?
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Amid third wave, University of Toronto’s Homer Tien takes over province’s COVID-19 vaccine task force: CBC
Tien, who’s also a surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the president and CEO of Ornge, Ontario’s air ambulance agency, replaced retired Gen. Rick Hillier, whose contract expired at the end of March. Tien has been a member of the task force since its inception and was instrumental in executing Operation Remote Immunity, a mission to immunize remote and isolated Indigenous communities.
The province’s vaccination campaign continues to roll out amid supply challenges and a mounting third wave of COVID-19 infections – and Tien is no stranger to high-stress medical operations. In 1996, he was the first medical officer posted to the Canadian military’s counterterrorism team during the NATO mission in Bosnia. A decade later, he was deployed to a field hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he often treated the victims of roadside bomb bl