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Damjan_D
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| Post subject: Advantages of Dictatorship in Bettering Healthcare |
Full article can be found at Asia Health Care Blog
Our national healthcare debate has kicked open the bedroom doors of the collective American conscience, revealing a schizophrenic, square room, fringed with red, liberal guilt interiors on one side, and a wall of protruding but rapidly oxidizing, neo-conservative rivets on the other.
In the middle of the room, a bed; and on it a donkey with a fine edged epee lies uncomfortably on a mattress – the mattress, like the room, equally divided in two. The donkey lies next to a grim, Caucasian elephant carrying a bludgeon and trying to slip a bomb under the bed, but carefully, so that only the donkey gets blown to pieces. The donkey, his glasses perched at the tip of his nuzzle, is nonplussed, reading a bill revision under the dim yellow light of a fluorescent, curly fry light buld. The elephant, reading the USA Today sports section under the yellow light of a gas stove, is listening to talk radio.
On the ottoman at the foot of the bed, President Obama sits intently studying the layout of the room and its occupants, trying to figure out exactly what he needs to do in order to bring some fresh air to the entire situation without getting blown up by big white Al Qa’Elephant in the room. The issue for the President is that the room is not his to do with as he pleases – he must get the reluctant bed mates to agree if he wants to do so much as open a window.
By contrast China’s Paramount Leader, Hu Jintao, looks out on his empire from the top floor of a concrete battlement and his healthcare planners sit at his feet, reading off the latest intel from around the world. He calmly opens and closes the windows in the room, and pees in one of the rooms many corners. For good measure he pees on one of the round sloped walls – Hu JinTao’s creative space is not a simple square. There is no healthcare debate apart from the one that goes on inside this room, and the conscience of China does not matter. Glancing outside Hu Jintao calmly... Read More |
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