Both naive and stupid.
“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.”
So the NYT claimed that after the intro of capitalism on a limited basis, life expectancy soared...and that is an argument “for” communism/socialism?
DK