bripat9643
Diamond Member
- Apr 1, 2011
- 170,170
- 47,328
- 2,180
Say No To Socialism » Romania’s 20-Year Nightmare: Unraveling Socialized Health Care
In my other life in Communist Romania, I managed a large intelligence organization that, among other tasks, was charged with keeping alive a nationalized health care system which in the end bankrupted the country and generated popular contempt. That system, very similar to the Affordable Health Care for America Act, was a bureaucratic nightmare. And it still is a nightmare in the former Soviet empire.
A European Union report on post-Communist Romanias Health Care System in Transition stated that this system devastated the country, whose infant mortality rate (20.2 per 1,000) was among the highest in Europe and whose death rate was 70% higher that the EU average. The worlds leading general medical journal, The Lancet, reported that even twenty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, life expectancy at birth is 66 years for Russians; 16 years less than for people in Japan and 14 less than the European Union average.[ii]
In my other life in Communist Romania, I managed a large intelligence organization that, among other tasks, was charged with keeping alive a nationalized health care system which in the end bankrupted the country and generated popular contempt. That system, very similar to the Affordable Health Care for America Act, was a bureaucratic nightmare. And it still is a nightmare in the former Soviet empire.
A European Union report on post-Communist Romanias Health Care System in Transition stated that this system devastated the country, whose infant mortality rate (20.2 per 1,000) was among the highest in Europe and whose death rate was 70% higher that the EU average. The worlds leading general medical journal, The Lancet, reported that even twenty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, life expectancy at birth is 66 years for Russians; 16 years less than for people in Japan and 14 less than the European Union average.[ii]