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This article is to inform you all on how socialized medicine really works these days. It is almost this bad in the UK, but there is private insurance available for those who can afford to pay for it. At the same time, in the UK, you frequently have no choice about treatment for you or your family.<\/p>\n
From the article:\u00a0 CARACAS, Venezuela \u2013 Of all the woes bought upon us by Venezuela\u2019s \u201cSocialism of the XXI Century,\u201d this is the one where my life took the heaviest blow, and the one where the government\u2019s hypocrisy and indolence shine the most.<\/p>\n
Venezuela used to boast a dual public and private health system, neither of which were close to perfect, but you always had the choice.<\/p>\n
My parents were doctors that worked in both sectors in tandem. My grandmother was a humble nurse that retired before I was born. My mother, an anesthesiologist (with five extra medical specialties) was the head of the reference Pain Management and Palliative Care Unit in the Miguel Perez Carre\u00f1o Hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, for sixteen years. So I was very familiar with the limitations and hardships of the public health system before socialism. I\u2019ve lived in three different cities in Venezuela and I often walked through the corridors of hospitals as a child.<\/p>\n
Still, despite all the shortcomings that the public sector has had, it always functioned as best as possible in my youth. That is not the case anymore. Our health crisis has claimed the lives of so many. I will always have the utmost respect for our doctors and health professionals because, despite all of the hardships they face \u2013 even having to perform surgery\u00a0without power<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 they still work tirelessly and save lives.<\/p>\n The continued collapse of the country has affected the private sector as well. You have to bring your own supplies to surgeries, from gauze to bandages or antiseptic products \u2014 that\u2019s how bad it\u2019s\u00a0gotten<\/a>.<\/p>\n The rest of the article is here:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2019\/11\/24\/my-socialist-hell-mourning-the-victims-of-venezuelas-healthcare-miracle\/<\/a><\/p>\n Before any of the unbelievers try to excuse Maduro\u2019s incompetence, he\u2019s getting plenty of money from the sale of Venezuela\u2019s only product, crude oil, but nothing works any more in Venezuela, including getting water. That has to be carried by hand to wherever people live. The entire infrastructure of that country – what we take for granted here – is broken.\u00a0 It\u2019s likely that Maduro won\u2019t be out of office unless he\u2019s dead. It may be a long wait. Meanwhile, what was once a thriving country with a thriving economy is well on its way to hitting bottom.<\/p>\n Lest you think it is peculiar to Venezuela \u2013 well, it is not. Russia\u2019s antiquated and incompetent medical system and hospitals are more of a threat to a patient\u2019s health and well-being than a Siberian winter. What was never admitted to or visible before the USSR ceased to exist is now plain to see. While the article below was published in 2016, it appears that not much has improved.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/the-horror-of-russian-healthcare-a7443121.html<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0 Russia placed last out of 55 developed nations in this year\u2019s Bloomberg report on the efficiency of the national health care systems. Things are unlikely to get better anytime soon: Russia\u2019s government recently announced plans to cut the budget for healthcare by 33 per cent next year, bringing annual spending down to just \u00a34.6bn. That\u2019s a level of funding equivalent to spending on health in Latin American or developing Asian countries, according to a recent report by Natalia Akindinova, director at the Center of Development Institute of Moscow\u2019s Higher School of Economics.<\/p>\n For some critics, this inability,\u00a0or unwillingness,\u00a0to alleviate suffering is the logical consequence of decades of authoritarian rule. \u201cRussians don\u2019t want to relieve their suffering and the suffering of those close to them for the simple reason they have been taught to view themselves as replaceable, insignificant screws in the system, whose personal feelings are meaningless,\u201d says Alexey Kascheev, a Moscow-based spine surgeon with a large social media following. \u201cBoth doctors and patients are willing to put up with physical and psychological torment. People think, “What does it matter if I am in pain, if I am nothing?\u201d \u2013 article<\/p>\n Indeed, what does<\/em> it matter?<\/p>\n Has the Russian health care problem\/crisis been resolved? Not yet; according to the following article from 2018, the drop in oil prices has had an negative economic effect on everything, including medical care.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.borgenmagazine.com\/russian-healthcare-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0\u00a0Russia\u2019s economic recession and its regional governments\u2019 $100 billion in debt has caused Russia to run higher budget deficits and to increase borrowing. The economic instability of Russia has contributed to increased poverty, major cuts to the healthcare system, and a Russian healthcare crisis.<\/p>\n The Russian Federation has free and universal state healthcare, but in name only. Changes to Russian\u2019s national healthcare system since the fall of the Soviet Union have attempted to provide Russians with an acceptable level of healthcare services. However, a continued\u00a0lack of funds<\/a>, a lack of medical and technical equipment and supplies and an outdated approach to medical training present major obstacles to alleviating the Russian healthcare crisis.<\/p>\n Throughout Russia, there is extreme regional variation regarding access to healthcare institutions.\u00a0Wealthier regions<\/a>\u00a0were found to be more effective in implementing healthcare system reforms, according to a study conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University professor Judyth Twigg.<\/p>\nExplaining the Russian Healthcare Crisis<\/h4>\n