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China is forced to clamp down on ticket touts…selling access to DOCTORS: 'Scalpers' buy up…(tr)
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11:36 EST, 3 March 2016 | Thomas Burrows

Posted on 03/03/2016 2:54:38 PM PST by Olog-hai

China has vowed to clamp down on 'scalpers' selling tickets for hospital appointments at hugely inflated prices.

Most hospitals in the country require patients to purchase registration tickets to see a doctor or receive treatment but the system is widely abused.

Scalpers buy up tickets for around £30 and can resell them for as much as £450, with those most in need of hospital treatment the biggest victims of the scandal.

They mainly operate in the largest cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: china; communism; hospitalslots; obamacare; redchina; scalpers; socialism; socializedmedicine
Full title: China is forced to clamp down on ticket touts…selling access to DOCTORS: 'Scalpers' buy up £30 hospital registration slots and then sell them to patients for £450

Capitalism breaks out in the midst of forced communism.

1 posted on 03/03/2016 2:54:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Tsk tsk. What would Chairman Mao think of his workers paradise??? What kind of communists are these, not being willing to wait their turn??? What kind of communist would scalp tickets for health access just to make money on the deal????


2 posted on 03/03/2016 3:02:57 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Olog-hai

More like the results of Obamacare, Red Chinese Communists style.


3 posted on 03/03/2016 4:18:48 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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