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Well, I would hope so since Canada has:

- socialized, universal health care

- a relatively homogeneous, well-educated society (aside from Quebec, of course)

- virtually no illegal immigrants/future voters (D) outside the system.

So I'd expect Canada to rapidly pull ahead of the US with it's dystopian health care system, as long as it has enough vaccine doses.

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> aside from Quebec, of course

Is Quebec not homogeneous or not well-educated? I believe vaccination rates there are similar to the rest of the country.

Ze French, they are, how do you say, différent.

What exactly do you mean by homogenous? More than one in five Canadians are foreign born. More than one in five Canadians are visible minorities. More than half of Torontonians are visible minorities.

> (aside from Quebec, of course)

What does that mean?

Quebec is primarily French-speaking and definitely see themselves as a different "nation" within Canada, apart from Anglo-Canadians. So calling Canada a homogenous Canada, while obviously discounting the large recent immigrant communities, also discounts the large Quebecois population who were there before Canada was even a thing.

Uh, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement

What else would it mean? Separatist movements are not very homogenous.

The vaccine is free, even without insurance. Anyone can walk into a CVS and get it. I don't see what the health care system has to do with that. That's actually an instance where privatized health care should work better than a government controlled one - and it does compared to a lot of other countries. The US does much better than many European countries for example.

I don't think whether socialized vs private aspect of healthcare has much effect on vaccination rate one way or another. The highest vaccinated among big countries were for a long time US and UK, one with private healthcare and the other with a single-payer system. UK was actually ahead of US for most of the time. Current vaccination rates in European countries are within a few percentage points of each other, whether they have a private system (e.g. Switzerland and Germany) or socialized (e.g. France).

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