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To: CodeJockey

That was true in the Soviet Union, too. Patients were expected to wash their own bedding in the bucket of dirty water left st the foot of their beds. Doctors made house calls, but they re-used equipment like catheters and syringes. There was a huge black market in medical supplies, because people would do whatever they could to avoid Soviet hospitals.


2 posted on 08/08/2018 5:42:30 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (".... and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed." Acts 13:48)
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To: Pining_4_TX

There was a huge black market in medical supplies, because people would do whatever they could to avoid Soviet hospitals.

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But they had universal healthcare, the holy grail of crooked Democrats.


5 posted on 08/08/2018 5:48:10 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Also, they had no aspirin or acetominiprin

We sent a man to Russia after it opened up. Before the second trip, we bought large containers of Tylenol and split them into baggied of ten tablets. The gifts opened doors everywhere.

They also had no panty hose. Panty hose also opened doors


8 posted on 08/08/2018 6:44:07 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12) Sanctuary is Sedition)
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