Brooke: Putincare, the Russian alternative to Obamacare
With Obamacare dividing America, I thought it my patriotic duty to do a firsthand, between the hospital sheets, investigation of Putincare.
So, here is my report, straight from frayed bed linens stamped Mинистерство Zдравоохранения – Health Ministry.
My weekend at the Cancer Ward did not have the drama of Solzhenitsyn’s 1967 novel. But it had its moments.
The Soviet Union had a two-track health system – for the Party elite, and for the masses. Modern Russia has a two-track system – for cash paying patients, and everyone else.