It is said that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was the most serious political disaster in the 20th century. For the Russian people, it was a real tragedy.

Why say this?

I have no intention of verifying the final origin of this sentence, and I also feel that this sentence may be a bit alarmist. For a lower-class people who are still struggling to go to school, see a doctor, and have housing, the suffering of the Russian people is really far away from me.

Far.

But when I hear the authoritative media that holds the truth of the universe preach that due to disintegration, democratic countries like Russia have now been reduced to selling resources to make a living, otherwise, they must be extremely poor after the collapse of the industrial system, and I almost believe it.

Recent news reports indicate that the Russian government has announced the end of paid medical care. Citizens can enjoy free medical care permanently. All medical services included in the national security plan are available to every Russian citizen since birth.

And the number of medical services will increase every year.

At first, I thought that the Putin government had lost its mind and was so poor that it relied on selling resources to make a living. I heard that it was even short of money to refuel aircraft carriers, destroyers and the like, and yet it was trying to make a fool of itself.

Just provide free medical care to the people under the rule.

Then I thought about it, no, who is Putin? There shouldn't be any problem with his IQ - I feel more and more that the so-called poverty in Russia in the past is just an illusory impression that someone forced into my mind.

For a society that has not yet reached the stage of "everyone doing what they can, everyone taking what they need", free medical care is indeed a major social welfare to protect people's livelihood.

Social welfare that benefits the people always costs money, and it is not a small sum that can be easily afforded. Therefore, according to the traditional view, free medical care has many negative impacts on social development, such as the operation of the entire medical institution

All costs and expenses are borne by the government. Due to financial constraints, medical facilities may not be in place and the quality of medical care may be unsatisfactory, making the social welfare of free medical care unsustainable.

Perhaps it is for this reason that the hospitals in India that provide free medical care are in poor condition, lack medical treatment and medicine, and can only provide services to the poor who live in relative poverty (rich people will not come even if they call); while in North Korea, all medical care is free.

The lifelong welfare package policy only benefits more than 3 million Pyongyang citizens. People in other areas can only complain about why they did not have the good fortune to be born in Pyongyang.

Russia does not distinguish between rich and poor, citizens or farmers, and implements free medical care for all. Where does it come from?

Is it relying on land speculation to collect taxes from the government?

Is it relying on fighter jets sold to China?

Or rely on natural gas transported to China?

Or is it to crack down on corrupt officials and confiscate property to fill the national treasury to maintain it?

It doesn’t seem to be the case either. In a country with private ownership of land, the land is vast and sparsely populated, making it impossible to speculate; and relying on China to make money seems unreliable. What if one day China becomes unhappy and doesn’t want his things?

Destiny is tied to other people's trouser pockets; confiscating the property of corrupt officials, although effective in the short term, is not sustainable after all, and may result in less income and more output.

Compared with China, we really can’t see the advantages of Russia’s free medical care, but it’s really puzzling that he does it.

Expensive and difficult medical treatment has always been an unsolvable problem in people's livelihood.

Although the medical system has been reformed over and over again, the problem has not been fundamentally solved. Seeing a doctor is still difficult and expensive, and the poor still have to deal with minor ailments and major ones.

Dai Furong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, said when participating in a satellite TV program, "Of more than 200 countries in the world, only more than 20 countries require money for medical treatment. In other countries, medical treatment is free." This remark hit home.

relieved the pain of the Chinese people.

Russia is like that, but it still has to work hard to provide free medical care for its citizens. Why can't we?

At first glance, we have the largest government agency in the world, we have the largest number of official vehicles in the world, we have the most luxuriously equipped office buildings in the world, we have the most diverse types of public consumption in the world, we have

The most corrupt officials in the world make huge amounts of money. From this perspective, the country is not short of money, but it is short of money to provide free medical care and social welfare to its citizens.

Look again, medical examinations are getting more and more expensive, drug price differences are getting bigger and bigger, hospital buildings are getting higher and higher, and doctors’ incomes are getting higher and higher. From this point of view, medical care has increasingly lost its angelic nature of saving lives and healing the wounded, and has become more and more useless in saving lives.

Yue leads to profit-seeking secular industry.

It is said that medical treatment is expensive, but there are people who can get it without spending money; it is said that medical treatment is difficult, but there are people who can live in VIP wards without spending money. If only these people who can live in VIP wards without spending money can be allowed to come.

Is it too far-fetched to consider introducing a welfare policy of free medical care?

We are the second largest economy in the world. Our decades of reform and opening up have proven the incomparable superiority of our social system - although we have not yet been able to enjoy the social welfare of free medical care, even though Russia, which is not as economically as we are, has implemented free medical care.

Medical social benefits.

At this point, I suddenly remembered a little story. In the "Xiao Cui Talks" column, the Minister of Health said in an interview: "We performed cataract surgery for a rural aunt for free. When she took off the gauze, she saw

, She really has to thank the party! Thanks to the government! She can't afford the surgery on her own."