The New York Times Reveals the Horrors of Capitalism—By Showing China’s State-Run Hospitals

DC Clothesline ^ | 11/21/2018 | Sarah Lilly

[deandg99]

The New York Times released a 10-minute video last month entitled “How Capitalism Ruined China’s Health Care System.” The video attempts to blame capitalism for the many problems in China’s health care system.

“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.”

As a resident of China and a recipient of outstanding private health care here, I was confused as to why the Times would show us the horrors of a capitalist system without actually visiting a private health care facility.

[PIF]

That photo was taken while Deng was in power - little has changed since - perhaps they use a different caliber now. BTW: other pictures of the same scene show many others being executed in the same manner along the wall.

[PIF]

Mao killed around 60 million people.

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74 million ... but what’s a few million between friends, eh?

[moovova]

“That photo was taken while Deng was in power...”

That’s one of the things I appreciate about FR...I learn a lot. Thanks.

[Wuli]

“Under Mao Zedong the Communist state provided free health care for all,” the narrator tells us.”

I have an American-Chinese friend who grew up in Communist China, before it’s so-called “capitalism” phase.

To say that “everyone had government healthcare” says (a) nothing about the quality of care or even the quality of medicine and (b) ignores that the political elite in China, and their personally favored political serfs, always had it better than the average Chinese person, even with regard to healthcare.

There was nothing “equal” about healthcare in China, unless you were only referring to the masses, and not those running the show, and what was “equal” was the poor quality of it.