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Jill Harness
Quebec’s Vaccine Distribution Inspired by Disneyland
by Jill Harness - November 23, 2009 - 7:00 AM

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If you’ve tried to get the H1N1 vaccine, then you may know just how hard it is to find a place that actually has the shots in stock and won’t make you wait in line for hours. In order to avoid the mess of lines, Quebec took a tip from Disneyland and set up a Fastpass-like system to get patients in and out of the hospital.

BoingBoing reports the system seems to be working out well, as most people only end up waiting in line to get their coupons that tell them when to return to get their vaccinations. At one location, nurses actually outnumbered the patients.

[Image courtesy of ghinson on Flickr.]

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  1. So they make it easier for rationed medical care to be given to special groups, and we should be impressed?

    The fact that this is a headline should make everyone nervous of gov’t run health care.

    posted by graham on 11-23-2009 at 5:02 pm

  2. There’s nothing in here at all about “special groups.” This should make everyone want government healthcare because it means anyone who wants the vaccine can get it without waiting in line –as opposed to us in the U.S., where anyone who can afford the vaccine can wait in line for hours and still be told it ran out.

    posted by Jill Harness on 11-23-2009 at 5:05 pm

  3. So you wait in line – to get a coupon which gives you another time to come back – and wait in another line.

    And this is better than just giving you the shot the first time?

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 11-23-2009 at 6:09 pm

  4. My entire family got vaccinated at two separate clinics (adult & children) we didn’t have bad waits at all, about 10 minutes at the adult and probably 5 minutes for the kids. The shots were free for us. Just call your health department and set up an appointment and you won’t even have to pay the administration fees that some doctors/ pharmacies/ etc. are charging. The shots are provided by the government, hoorah for socialized healthcare.

    posted by Kat on 11-24-2009 at 12:07 am

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