Socialism - when you run out of other peoples money

[GURPS]

Corpses 'Exploding' In Decrepit Venezuelan Hospitals


The hospital certainly was not always a house of horrors. It was once regarded as one of Venezuela's best public hospitals -- a standard-bearer for health care, according to the Venezuela news site La Patilla. Recently, La Patilla sent a reporter with a hidden camera through the facility: it revealed patients unattended in hallways and the emergency room, shortages of essential equipment, and a lack of air conditioning in wards. The hospital is yet another example of economic decay under “21st Century Socialism" – what Venezuela's late firebrand president, Hugo Chávez, had pledged would turn the South American nation into a workers paradise. Socialism, however, has turned Venezuela into a workers hell.

To be sure, the collapse of Venezuela's health care system was well underway during Hugo Chávez's presidency, even as high oil prices filled government coffers -- a fact that alarmed officials at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. They described their concerns in a "confidential" diplomatic cable sent in December 2009. Published by WikiLeaks, the cable was written during Hugo Chávez's tenth year in office when his socialist agenda was well under way -- from command-and-control economic policies to nationalizing large swaths of the economy. By then, Venezuela was hardly a workers paradise, however -- as was underscored by the increasingly deplorable state of its health-care system. Some of Venezuela's hospitals were closing while others were ridden with crime, noted the diplomatic cable. Many physicians were quitting medicine -- starting new careers in Venezuela or migrating abroad, upset at being paid a pittance or nothing at all. Medical supplies were in increasingly short supply. The cable blamed Venezuela's ongoing health-care crisis squarely on President Chávez -- his Cuban-style health care initiatives and the politicization of the Venezuela's health care system. Physicians perceived as being anti-Chávez were being disciplined, while incompetent military officials were placed in charge of public hospitals.

The economy's tailspin has worsened under Chávez's successor, Nicholas Maduro, a bus driver-turned politician, who has double downed on his predecessor's socialist policies amid slumping oil prices. Now, acute shortages of food, medicine, and even toilet paper are part of daily life in Venezuela – thanks to a command-and-control economy that abhors free-markets and fails to respect private property. In the morgue where a corpse exploded, for instance, there were no disinfectants, chlorine or formaldehyde, according to employees. Draconian currency exchange and price controls are among the policies that are rightly blamed for the scarcity of basic goods.

Queue TJ to lecture - US Healthcare will never [like SS] run out of money ..... yeah but what service can you get when dollars are worthless than toilet paper


- see Zimbabwe financial collapse or Weimar Republic Germany for Examples

 

[Hijinx]

Queue TJ to lecture - US Healthcare will never [like SS] run out of money ..... yeah but what service can you get when dollars are worthless than toilet paper


- see Zimbabwe financial collapse or Weimar Republic Germany for Examples

Gee looks like the future of America as we make war on coal.
Prices will skyrocket
The ACA will get totally out of control.
We will give more of our jobs to Foreign countries, and along comes inflation.

 

[tommyjo]

Queue TJ to lecture - US Healthcare will never [like SS] run out of money ..... yeah but what service can you get when dollars are worthless than toilet paper


- see Zimbabwe financial collapse or Weimar Republic Germany for Examples

Never read anything about Zimbabwe or Germany did ya? You just heard about their inflation problems...you just hear "socialism" and react.

Go take a f***ing class and ACTUALLY learn something if you don't want me to continually point out the stupidity of your articles, sources and points.

 

[Gilligan]

take a f***ing class and ACTUALLY learn something if you don't want me to continually point out the stupidity of your articles, sources and points.

Actually, toolgirl, you are being trolled again. None of us really GAF about your opinions...we just like to point at you and laugh. You make it so easy.

 

[GURPS]

Never read ....

easy as one, two, three .... I have read plenty in my 51 years

Weimar Republic has NOTHING to do with Socialism, but everything to do with rampant inflation
Zimbabwe is a full presidential republic and has NOTHING to do with Socialism, but everything to do with rampant inflation - and everything to do with mismanagement

Socialist Venezuela - is a prime example is what happens when socialism collapses - riding high on OIL Revenues ...... lets give all this stuff away - provide for everyone - with no sound underpinnings than OIL Money - whoops the Gov. cannot purchase Toilet Paper - the once shining Socialized Medicine has collapsed - people are starving .... there are RIOTS

with no REAL economy except what the GOV could provide it collapses