On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:19:28 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
>We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Corfield
> saying something like:
>
>
>
>>almost complete lack of a social
>>security and state health system was most telling.
>
>Now that surprises me. I thought the whole point about the Chicom state
>was provision of things like that for all.
Indeed but the opposite was true. Health care is private and they have
lovely shiny hospitals which will happily take a massive slice of annual
earnings from people for check ups, medicine and operations.
On the programme there was an example of a family where the elderly
grandfather required treatment and the son had to take him to hospital
and cough up about 30% of annual earnings for his treatment. There was
no state support at all for the grandfather or sibling.
The same pretty much applies to things like pensions and education. Its
the antithesis of communism from what I can see. It also makes Gordon
Brown look like the keeper of the communist faith.
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