[lbo-talk] The second most productive economy and its caring

Mark Wain wtkh at comcast.net
Thu Nov 11 03:35:20 PST 2010


The second most productive economic country has rather limited medical care. In 2009, the medically insured is 400 million out of a total population of 1.335 billion or about 30% and 2.16 million registered physicians or 1.62 physician per 1,000 population.

"The Lancet study estimated that roughly 173 million Chinese suffer from a mental disorder. Only 45,000 people had been covered for free outpatient treatment and only 7,000 for free inpatient care because they were either dangerous to society or too impoverished to pay."

According to overseas newspaper reports: bureaucratic and comprador "communist"/capitalists' underground or gray (namely power-swiped+corruption-related) income was estimated at $800 billion in 2009, which is greater than $530.2 billion, the national financial income of the central government in the same year.

For those on this list, it's clear that why the Chinese social welfare spending is so low. The Chinese workers' blood and sweats have not gotten a shred exchange value from the capitalists or "communists", whatever one would like to call them. Some may want to wish them well, but as long as people's health conditions are worsening and they can only hope against hope to break off the social-fascist shackles and chains and to live like human beings again as before....

Mark

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/world/asia/11psych.html



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