by David Spence at Immortalism.com
While the current lame attempt to give Americans some kind of health care reform still hangs in the balance, the Chinese government has already successfully passed legislation last year (2009) which is going to give health care coverage to 90% of China’s 1.3 billion people by 2011. Around 1.1 billion is already covered as of this point.
Something which should shame the U.S. government. Especially the Republican Party wing and its unhinged zealots. But maybe that’s why there’s a complete blackout of this big China story in the major U.S. media.
Just click below link to story with more details
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-08/09/content_8546881.htm
Universal heath care for 1.3 billion Chinese is a staggering feat by the Chinese government. Especially when compared to the U.S. government which has long claimed that the richest country on earth cannot afford to give its people what in the European Union is a basic human right.
There has been a total blackout of this big China story in the U.S. and Western media!
The august editors at the New York Times, Washington Post, or Fox have no excuse since they, like anyone, can easily google and find this story extensively covered in the Chinese media. On their English sites.
And in impeccable, not pidgin, English as the above link shows.
One would think that with all the China-bashing stories that there might be a little twinge of guilt which compels covering this story fairly, giving credit where credit is due. But nope, that would be way out of line on the media’s China script.
Comparing the fact that China has already passed its health care reform, and the U.S. has not, now that would be to any unbiased news editor a story, right? Not to mention one that is very revelant and very timely.
Since the health care reform legislation passed, the Chinese government has poured over $10.5 into restoring universal health care which was one of the crowning achievements of China under Mao from 1949 to 1976.
Now if Mao, whom the U.S. media portrays as the devil incarnate, was able to do it, isn’t it more cause for absolute shame and culpability that the U.S. government still hasn’t. 60 years after Mao delivered universal health care to the Chinese people.
Now universal health care is an issue which is of primary interest to The Elixxir Society. Because having or not having health care directly impacts life expectancy, and is a matter of life and death.
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