H1N1 Review, the Implications of the Vaccine Strategy.

The point that is missed in all this, is that Canada has a socialized medical care for all its citizens.  A lot of us are pretty proud of it.

--The problem that arises from the first point is that not only do all Canadians have access to medicare, all Canadians pay for it. People who pay higher taxes pay more proportionally than people who don't.  Nevertheless, there is a sort of accountability citizens have to the rest of us.  This is why there are seat-belt laws.   Society pays for your stupidity.
-- If you are in a bad accident with seat belts and air bags, you stand a greater probability to survive, and to survive with less injury.  So I pay more for the person who crashes without a seat belt than I do if he has it on.
--Tobacco and Alcohol taxes are supposed to support the social costs that users inflict on the rest of us, for similar reasons.
--This brings into focus the problem of the vaccine last year.  A lot of people elected to pass, which basically is their right.  BUT, the rest of us pay if you end up in the hospital with H1N1, because you chose to believe a conspiracy theory rather than your own scientists.  Even people who were inoculated suffer if, during the time of epidemic, they required medical care other than H1N1 as all the resources were otherwise occupied.  Pity you if you had heart-attack at that time for example.