BACK IN THE USSR

BACK IN THE USSR WHERE HEALTH CARE IS NOT SUBJECT TO DEBATE

 

While the Health care debate has been off our radar for a few days, while we focus on wasting money we don't have gift giving, affordability and quality of care is, and will continue to be an issue for all of us. I could give you my own personal examples of outrageous charges and denials of coverage ("you weren't going to die, so the procedure was unnecessary"), but you know to well what I'm talking about.

 But, back in the USSR, I mean the country formerly known as Russia, health care is whole other thing. 

Not feeling well, call an ambulance, and crew shows up including a doctor to run a battery of tests and even administer meds, right there in your home. 

 If you have a chronic illness, how about taking a few weeks of treatments at a medical spa? What? you don't have the $5,00 per week? Well if you live in Siberia, like my dear mother-in-law, how about 2 weeks of spa treatments and medically directed protocols, plus 3 meals a day, all for a total of $400?

 These treatments are so well known for their benefits, such as enemas, that they are even memorialized in Statuary

My dear departed father, a native son of Mother Russia, use to like saying to me back in  my Marxist days, if you think its so great there, why don't you just move there. This is a whole other story.

 The question is, how is it possible, that as Americans, we're going broke with health care costs, and decreasing quality of care? At least in Russia, what they are getting stuck up their asses is sterilized and can be beneficial.