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American VIP care is “off the charts,” whereas the level of care provided even in a Kings County or a Bellevue is much, much better than care in the socialized medical world.
I visited patients in the best hospital in Montreal years ago for yom tov and I was shocked by the facilities and the dinginess. (In fact the nicest part of the hospital was the psych unit because it was mainly a recreational environment but I can’t compare it to its counterparts elsewhere as the only other time I ever did bikur cholim on a psych unit was on a unit for patients who had harmed themselves L”A and I was really there for the staff to hear shofar). The Montreal hospital was comparable to Communist era facilities in Moscow, with the difference being that the Montreal hospital had known better days from the pre-socialized era whereas the Moscow facility had sunk into chaos from the lack of any system there at the time (now private insurance is available there and some facilities are improving).
Besides, most of the issues in the public hospitals are created by the lifestyles of the patients that they treat, and these lifestyle issues most notably encompass drugs, alcohol, abusive behavior/crime and arayois.