Is Socialized Healthcare Causing Italy's High Coronavirus Death Rate ?, Crypto Coins News
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Italy’s coronavirus death rate is the highest in the world at 8. 052% and the percentage is rising by the day.
Italy’s healthcare system is ranked among the best in the world – so what is going wrong ?
Some speculate that socialized healthcare could be causing Italy’s high death rate. Authorities may start leaving elderly people to die to make room for younger patients.
Italy’s coronavirus nightmare is getting worse by the day.
Italy’s high coronavirus death rate is raising suspicion, with many fearing that socialized medicine is to blame. But that does not explain why death rates have remained so low in Germany and other European nations that employ a similar healthcare system.
Coronavirus Pandemic Sweeping Europe
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, may also employ a similar top-down socialist approach to control its coronavirus outbreak. The death rate in Spain is steadily climbing with 4. % of confirmed infections ending in death so far.
The Jury is Still Out on Socialized Healthcare
The highly fatal coronavirus outbreaks in Spain and Italy are a very bad look for socialized medicine, especially as healthcare becomes a hot-button issue on the campaign trail. Many Americans would probably object to the idea of a government official having the power to take an elder relative off a ventilator to make room for someone else.
But the jury is still out on whether or not America’s healthcare system will be better able to handle a coronavirus pandemic. Some Twitter users suggest the United States will fare worse than Italy when the full impacts of the virus hit its shores.
(America free market) system do better than Italy’s socialist system? | Source Twitter.com
It’s also important. to note that countries like South Korea and Germany have been able to successfully manage their outbreaks despite having socialist healthcare systems. This suggests Italy’s high death rate could be the result of government incompetence more than anything else.
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