You know, one of the things we are going to miss about newspapers once they all fold up and blow away with the wind is the 2-3 paragraph news stories provided by the wire services of which we find at least 4 or 5 gems every week. Stories like this which had an eerily familiar ring to it:
BEIJING – China announced yesterday the outlines of a thorough reform of the health care system that pledges to provide improved services to all citizens by 2020, tackling a crucial issue that has become a major source of public dissatisfaction.
While many details of the plan remain unclear, the announcement underscored the communist government's need to at least appear to be making progress on the issue. Public health care has been underfunded for years, and the high cost and poor availability of services are among the biggest complaints of the Chinese public.
(emphasis, ours)
Goodness, there it is again. Its getting to be so you can’t swing a dead cat in the universal health care chat room without hitting “crappy service”.
We gotta hand it to the Chi-coms,though. They are not content to merely mimic standard Euro-style health care by providing crappy service, they make sure you can’t afford it either.
We're kicking tires on the lot and wondering what kind we're going to get. We're giddy with anticipation. We know for sure we will be getting the "crappy service" model but we're dying to know if the Feds will throw in the "can't afford it" option as well.
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Ask anyone in Europe who has had to have anything more serious than a hangnail looked at what they think about the quality and speed of the care provided under universal health care. I don't think you will get many favorable responses. And I am sure that any universal health care plan that comes to the U.S. will be even worse.
Thanks for stopping by, f_d. Its such an inherently flawed concept that has the exact same results wherever its applied.
But wait there's a bright side!!
Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu admitted that the practice of selling the organs of executed prisoners to foreign transplant recipients is common, while promising to change the policy. “We want to push for regulations on organ transplants to standardise the management of the supply of organs from executed prisoners and tidy up the medical market
Think I could get me some executed hair with the new Chinese plan, Bald 'Dawg
See... There's a market in everything.
Best of luck with that hair thing, Dawg - I like the clean look.
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