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To: FormerACLUmember

This is nothing new — way back when I was on a tour of Moscow and (then) Leningrad, we saw the buildings within the Kremlin walls where the dear leaders went for special medical treatments and to shop for ‘western’ goods, etc.

At that time, 1977, times were REALLY tough for average citizens and the big dept. store, GUM, looked worse than a swap meet and smelled like one giant urinal.

Now it’s been all gussied up and Russians have access to whatever they want — but you can bet ‘leaders’ will still leave the country for crucial medical treatments by doctors in the west.

In 1977 it was well known that Russian doctors earned the same ‘salary’ as did taxi drivers! How’s that for equality!


61 posted on 02/02/2010 11:39:03 AM PST by CaliforniaCon
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In Canada, good health care is not for the `little people`.


62 posted on 02/02/2010 12:13:49 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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