Make the unvaxxed pay!

Vincent J. Curtis

17 Sept 21

Denying OHIP Coverage means the end of socialized medicine

Over the last several weeks, the Spectator has run letters in which it is said that the unvaccinated should forced pay for their hospital stays and be denied OHIP coverage.  The same has been said about smokers, drug addicts, and other people who have unhealthy habits.  Because of their vices, they ought to be denied OHIP coverage.

Those of this sentiment should vote to end socialized medicine, because that is what they’re demanding.  They want purely for-profit medicine, with no exemptions for poverty or anything else.

If a person is going to be denied of OHIP coverage because of this or that perceived vice, and they’re expected to pay out of their own pocket, then they have a right to private insurance coverage.  With private insurance that may pay more for services than the going OHIP rate comes a better level of treatment for the OHIP denied.  Quickly, socialized medicine starts to unravel.

There can be no exceptions for poverty.  If an unvaccinated person doesn’t have insurance and is unable to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars of potential health care costs, then that person cannot be admitted to hospital.  Otherwise, the bill gets paid by OHIP, and that violates the rule of making people pay for their vices.

Those demanding that the unvaccinated pay for their COVID hospitalization probably don’t realize that they’re really calling for an end to socialized medicine and the implementation of a full for-profit medical system with no exceptions for poverty.

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