[goldstategop]

Julia Gorin paints a depressing picture of Soviet "free" health care. The indifference and inhumanity to patients' health and welfare was appalling. The Western Left knows nothing of the suffering of totalitarianism's victims. It was a nightmare that invaded even simple moments of ordinary life, such as in a woman's giving birth to her child. The Left declaims about the beauty of socialism. Well not really. The reality stinks.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[weegee]

The Soviet Union was defeated but globally Socialism is strong enough that it hasn't been cast to the junk heap of history and it is united enough that different agitators will come to the political support of socialists around the world.

[investigateworld]

I can recall seeing a TV interview with a worker from the American Friends Committee (Quakers) who was in North Korea.
The subject skipped over all the hardships there saying "They have wonderful daycare there".

[dr_who_2]

Liberal arts majors everywhere ought to be required to read this stuff.

[metmom]

What animals human beings can become. I can never believe sometimes, the depths of depravity that people can sink to. Thank God that I was born in the U.S.A. For all it's difficulties, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I knew a Ukrainian immigrant family and I was talking to their s-i-l and she said, "At least they'll have something to eat this winter." I was speachless. I can't imagine what it's like to have your kids cold and hungry for the winter, starving. How heartbreaking.

[libertylover]

Back in the USSR, the new mother would soak in her puddles on a small linen sheet and oil cloth, since patients weren't entitled to more than one or two changes per day. If she wanted an extra change, she'd have to beg and brown-nose the nannychka, as the orderly was addressed by the screaming women.

A friend of mine lived and worked in Italy for a few years where his first child was born. His wife reported to a nurse that there was no toilet paper in the bathroom, to which the nurse replied, "Didn't you bring any from home?". Later, his wife wanted to take a shower and asked the nurse for a towel. "Didn't you bring one from home". Ahh, the joys of socialized medicine.

[Jimmy Valentine]

You can get good health care in Ukraine, and Russia.

Long as you have enough bribe money to pay, that is.

[fishbabe]

we have one of those in the usa..Its called king/drew medical center in los angeles and the nickname is killer king hospital...It would be the way socialized medicine really works...use google or dog pile and find out how BADDDDDDDDDDDD this place really is,the libs knew it and didn't do anything to clean it up WHY??????cuz' itds run by blacks......After years of criminals being workers,nurses talking while patients are dying,criminals being hired and retained,medical instruments left in patients and thats not even the worst of it....

[aculeus]

... you had free health care. Why did you leave?" The questioner, a former editor with the New York Times, then proceeded to assert that today's Britain and U.S. are no longer free.

Bump ... for the truth.