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In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)ConcernedCanuk
Universal Health Care do have it benefits - specially when you need it - and given the treatment you need, that be in your local hospital - or on a larger hospital where you get propper help...
In the 1970s and 1980s when the cold war was on it badest - it was the bad economy - and the military spending in the USSR who finally broke the camels back when it come to the economy.. The USSR had strugled with the economy for a long time in the 1970s - and was not able to compeete with USA even if they wanted to do it when it got to military spending. And the war in Afghanistan, who was extremely expensive for the USSR really hit the economy hard as USSR had to use more and more ressurses to fight the Muhadehin in Afghanistan - ressurses that should have been spendt on sivilian use inside the USSR.. Not to say that the USSR also had to answer to Reagans "stat-wars program" who in the early 1980s scared the hell out of Kremlin becouse it looked like USA was on the brink of having the ressurses to wage a nuclear war against the soviets - withouth the USSR been able to answer in kind if war was to break out... A lot of ressurses was spendt on that front - ressourses that could have been spendt on making sure the population in the USSR might have better life..
In the mid 1980s new leaders emerged in the Soviet with Gorbatsjev, who wanted shange - he understood to a degree that the system was broke - and wanted to shange it - and opened the country slowly to the rest of the world.. He also wanted to spend less on military - as allmoust 50 percent of the national budget was spendt on the Navy, the Airforce, and the Armed forces in USSR... And USSR had not the ressourses to continue that in the future...
Be beware of economical colapse - that is my advice for america....
Diclotican