https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1737771585153499494
Lmao, not a piracy problem. Just the Yemenis carrying out legitimate naval interdiction operations and interference from Israel’s allies. Mfkers pretending this is a piracy problem like off the coast of Somalia when it’s just ships affiliated with Israel being interdicted.
My understanding is that it’s steadily improving, even if it’s not universally free at point of service yet
That’s like saying American healthcare is steadily improving (pointing at ACA) even if it’s not universally free at point of service yet.
China’s health insurance model is just as systemically broken as the US’s health insurance model, and the only effective resolution will be dumping the entire system.
Comparing the flaccid improvement of the ACA to the genuine and steady progress that China is bringing to their healthcare seems disingenuous. Health spending has quadrupled in about a decade, see here (most articles seemed to link back to this one); and the state makes sure not to let srug companies throw their cock around (for example as seen in that video widely shared on this site showing state negotiators all but forcing foreign pharma company reps to accept basically selling at cost). And frankly their responses to and attempts to contain COVID were incredible from a public health perspective.
That’s just a few examples but they’re signs of forward and continuing progress. It is not a sign of government inaction and abandoning people to the whims and ravages of private healthcare as seen in the US.
Here is a good article - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3776089/
The response to COVID-19 suggests much of the lib author’s hand wringing about challenges are easily surmounted if the political will exists.
It also demonstrates some improvement over the last couple of decades from the excesses in the late 90s, and reforms have slowly improved the system (but I still think it’s comparable tinkering around the edges).
But again, the response to covid clearly shows at least for healthcare there is a “press to implement socialist healthcare” button.