There has been an outbreak of northwestern China and two people have died. This type of plague needs to be treated with 24 hours with antibiotics, or death is virtually certain. Would health insurance and the system of waiting a week for a doctor's appointment allow people infected to get that antibiotic in time?
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They would have to go to an ER, not a private doctor, unless they were sure they could get in, and probably if it broke out here, (unlikely) they would have to be sure ER's, clinics and hospitals were set up for an outbreak. I don't know about insurance, I'm sure if insurance covered prescriptions, antibiotics that would be taken would be covered. The fact is, there is always some plague somewhere. If this had happened in China even 20 years ago we probably would never have heard about it. It is unfortunate than anybody in China has it and that anybody has died but I don't think we're looking at the middle ages all over again.
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