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At least he was in a place with universal health care when it happened.

He is in one of the best private hospitals of the south hemisphere. Didn’t understand your point here.

Strokes, alongside heart attacks tend to be time-critical conditions. In absence of a broad coverage, quick response first responder system, an expensive private hospital will be of little help, if you're already dead or a vegetable by the time you arrive there.

> Valeria Chomsky said via email that her 95-year-old husband is in a Sao Paulo hospital, where she took him on an ambulance jet with two nurses once he could more easily travel from the United States following the June 2023 stroke.

He came here using an ambulance jet from US. Or did I get it wrong?

But yeah, in general you right, SUS is a great public health system, specially for such cases. But rich people don't use it, so it's not relevant to people like Chomsky. But it's super relevant to people like me.

SUS is a joke. Those that can afford buy private medical insurance but even that sucks because due to heavy regulation and government intervention. Only the rich and lucky have good healthcare in Brazil.

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