Tuesday, November 20, 2018

The New York Times Reveals the Horrors of Capitalism—By Showing China’s State-Run Hospitals | Intellectual Takeout

The New York Times Reveals the Horrors of Capitalism—By Showing China’s State-Run Hospitals | Intellectual Takeout
"The New York Times released a 10-minute video last month entitled “How Capitalism Ruined China’s Health Care System.” 
The video attempts to blame capitalism for the many problems in China’s health care system.
See the source image“Under Mao Zedong the Communist state provided free health care for all,” the narrator tells us. “Decades later China adopted a unique brand of capitalism that transformed the country from a poor farming nation into an economic superpower. Life expectancy soared. But the introduction of capitalism and the retreat of the state meant that health care was no longer free.”
...All of the horrors depicted in the high-quality video—the long lines, the scalping, and the hospital fights—occurred at government-run health care facilities.
If the Times had visited one of China’s many private health care facilities, they would have found something quite different.
I know first-hand how outstanding the care at private facilities is in China..."
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