Here is how health care worked in the Warsaw pact during the time of the USSR - from first hand experience.
You bribed a doctor to see you.
You bought your drugs on the black market
You brought in a your own linen, food and TP to your hospital room
You bribed the nurse to look after you
This is socialized medicine...
It sounds like our VA hospitals are ahead of the curve in reaching the Soviet level of care.
Friends in Brazil describe their government healthcare system simply as “the butcher shop”. Only the very poor use it, while the rest often go into debt to pay for quality private medical care.
A friend in the UK delayed surgery until he went to Germany on a business trip in lieu of the “free” care available in London. Their system apparently allows EU residents to use Germany’s high quality health care system.
Government run health care or health insurance is not about medicine it’s about Marxist power over the population.
You bribed a doctor to see you.
You bought your drugs on the black market
You brought in a your own linen, food and TP to your hospital room
You bribed the nurse to look after you
“This is socialized medicine...”
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Your excellent post and personal experience should go viral.
This is exactly why everyone should have gold/silver coins readily available.
IMHO, I feel that very few doctors these days would refuse a ‘Gold Eagle’ (slipped into their pocket in the privacy of their office) in order to facilitate speedy treatment for a family member or yourself.
So many here at FR & other sites chant the mantra “You can’t eat gold”. They’re right, of course, but a live chicken or a can of dehydrated potato flakes isn’t going to get much action.