[Vigilanteman]

The old Soviet Union was also famous for making vodka cheaper than safe drinking water. I see the same mentality in place in the rush to legalize marijuana, a near instant killer of memory and brain cells, while at the same time cracking down on tobacco, a slow and inefficient way to contract cancer.

[TurboZamboni]

What Soviet Medicine Teaches US

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322458/posts

So, as in all countries with socialized medicine, a two-tier system was created: one for the “gray masses” and the other, with a completely different level of service, for the bureaucrats and their intellectual servants. In the USSR, it was often the case that while workers and peasants were dying in the state hospitals, the medicine and equipment that could save their lives was sitting unused in the nomenklatura system.