Socialized Medicine Working Brilliantly In China

When anyone really wants to know how a medical system is serving its consumers, check the infant and toddler mortality rate.

And while I am no fan of the military medical system in the United States, which is our closest retarded cousin to universal health care, I say it is a sight better than that of Liberal societal perfection, Communist China.

As is my policy, I will not print the photo to evoke emotion by proxy, the words are damning enough.

About 400,000 toddlers die every year in China mainly because of a lack of medical care, a member of a government advisory group said on Wednesday, urging greater investment in the health system. (snip)

China has been grappling with an acknowledged rise in public dissatisfaction over the state of the country's medical system, which once provided almost free, cradle-to-grave care. (snip)

Zhu estimated that the lives of 240,000 children could be saved if the government spent an extra 26 billion yuan ($3.36 billion) a year.

Uh...NOooo. Try introducing a little dose of CAPITALISM. Guaranteed 100% cure rate for even the sickest medical system.

Not a miracle, but then China didn't slip into this coma overnight.

Comments

[PRCalDude]

This is the reason China will never be a world power. They have an aging population thanks to their draconian population control laws, they have a high infant mortality rate, and perhaps most horrifyingly, they don't have enough women to go around. You can't man ships and fill armies with old men. They're committing cultural suicide right along with the West.

[JANE SAYS: Yeah, makes you wonder if they have MATH in China.]

[Birdie]

I enjoyed a visit from my childhood doctor friend last weekend. She told me the saddest thing. If she had it to do over, she wouldn't go to med school. "It's not what I hoped it would be." Life with malpractice suits has trained most doctors to view each person that walks into the exam room as a potential adversary. The altruistic desire to to be a true physician has become a pipe dream thanks to our screwed up medical and judicial systems.
Sad sad sad.

[JANE SAYS: I HATE to say this, and I am VERY PROUD OF HER, you know that I am. But at this point, she needs to go home and mother her kids. When they are up and out, she might have her spark back, and less to lose if she gets sued. And with what I know HE makes, she can go volunteer in some third world country (like Appalachia !) and enjoy HELPING people again.

xoxoxoxJaniexxoxo ]

[Birdie]

I think she'd LOVE to quit. I'm not sure why she doesn't--other than the difficulty of walking away from something she dedicated 10-12 years of her life to attaining. . .

[JANE SAYS: As compared to say, the realtively short eighteen months it took her to "attain" her children? I can see how time investment in a product is a direct corollary to intrinsic value. Yep, crystal clear on that one. {Oouuch, did I type that out loud?} ;) ]