Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
Well, didn't the USSR have quite decent health care, at least for a few decades... And free too. Or am i wrong, i don't know.... That is my impression anyway. Although some aspects of it, like long term care of mentally retarded people seems to have been bad. People here have said that the system is still tolerable, but not great, and still more or less free.
Here is a jocular song about a grudging doctor and his elderly patients accompanied by outrageously disparaging caricatures , mercilessly exposing the so called dark side of Soviet/Russian free medicine not so often mentioned in official media.