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Titolo: Una notizia dalla Cina

Questa non la sapevo: leggo sul NYT che la Cina, pur essendo da 
sessant'anni uno stato comunista, si appresterebbe solo oggi a offrire 
una copertura medica di base universale ai suoi cittadini.
L'articolo racconta che i cinesi sono un popolo che risparmia molto per 
mettere da parte i soldi per le cure mediche e per altri bisogni, dato 
che in Cina in realtà mancherebbe lo stato sociale.
Povera gente. A leggere queste cose mi ricordo quanto noi siamo 
privilegiati a non essere nati da quelle parti.
January 22, 2009
China Announces Subsidies for Health Care
By EDWARD WONG
BEIJING — China announced Wednesday that it intended to spend $123 
billion by 2011 to establish universal health care for the country’s 1.3 
billion people.
The plan was passed Wednesday at a session of the State Council, the 
Chinese cabinet. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao presided.
Xinhua, the state news agency, said the authorities would “take measures 
within three years to provide basic medical security to all Chinese in 
urban and rural areas, improve the quality of medical services and make 
medical services more accessible and affordable for ordinary people.”
Providing universal health care is seen by some economists as a way to 
stimulate domestic spending during the current economic downturn. The 
Chinese have a high savings rate, and one of the reasons usually cited 
is their worry about possible medical expenses because China lacks a 
social safety net, including affordable health care.
Bai Zhongen, chairman of the economics department at Tsinghua 
University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing, said that 
establishing universal health care with government-financed insurance 
would increase general consumer spending. He said the school did a 
survey in 2007 about the effect of rural health insurance on consumer 
behavior and “found that in government-sponsored health insurance areas, 
people are spending more.”
The government already gives many people a small subsidy to help pay for 
health care, but more government financing for individual health care 
would strengthen the economy, Mr. Bai said.
Xinhua reported that the plan approved Wednesday would aim to provide 
some form of medical insurance for 90 percent of the population by 2011. 
Each person covered by the system would receive an annual subsidy of 
more than $17 starting in 2010. Medicine would also be covered by the 
insurance, and the government would begin a system of producing and 
distributing necessary drugs this year.
The plan also aims to improve health centers in rural and remote areas 
as well as equalize health services between urban and rural areas, 
Xinhua reported. Furthermore, the government would begin this year to 
reform the operations of public hospitals.
“Growing public criticism of soaring medical fees, a lack of access to 
affordable medical services, poor doctor-patient relationship and low 
medical insurance coverage compelled the government to launch the new 
round of reforms,” Xinhua reported.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/world/asia/22beijing.html?_r=3&ref=asia

 una copertura medica di base universale ai suoi cittadini.
La Cina comunista è finita da un pezzo, solo all'occidente fa comodo 
dipingerla tale. Se non te ne fossi reso conto la Cina è uno stato 
consumistico capitalista con un modello copiato agli States, il fatto 
che gli "imprenditori" siano meno visibili e non identificabili 
facilmente in una persona fisica che soggiorna al Bilionair con la 
troietta di turno durante l'estate non implica che il modello non sia 
capitalista.
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maiala quanto tu se'LOSER
Che tristezza!

 
Sempre a proposito di questa notizia io avevo letto che fino a qualche 
anno fa c'era
la previdenza sanitaria universale, solo che è stato smantellato..
fe...@delenda.net
-- 
Wenn strafen will die Gotteshand, so nimmt sie einem den Verstand


Infatti fino agli anni '80 era praticamente gratuito, oggi si paga
anche per le urgenze; quando ci sono stato mi hanno detto di non
separarmi mai dalla mia carta di credito!

 Questa non la sapevo:
Ecco, informati meglio
-- 
Gehrig
"L'inverno sta arrivando"