In Brazil, health care is free — by law, everyone has a right to treatment, from organ transplants to sex-change operations.
No one benefits more than the poor, and physicians are given incentives and paid up to three times more to work in the poorest areas of Brazil.
As a result, infant mortality is down and life expectancy is up, but there are drawbacks. Offering so much has put a strain on the health system. Most of Brazil’s hospitals are considered substandard, with long waits for procedures.
Worldfocus correspondent Edie Magnus and producer Megan Thomspon report from Brazil on the highs and lows of universal health care.
11/03/2009 :: 04:21:55 PM
João Carlos Says:
Mrs Elizabeth is so worried about our “free” system and the US lack of ability to provide something minimum to their citizens that she has to go after the flaws of the Brazilian society to support her discomfort.
Do better to your self, compare with the British Health Care system or the French one. It doesn’t matter where the money comes from, each society has to have it as a principle, “to take care to the health of their citizens”. Nobody knows where we’ll be in the future, how healthy/wealthy he/she are going to be. Those guys who are the first to talk about tax payers and so on, are always the same selfish bourgeois just concerned about themselves.
Please Mrs Elizabeth, don’t compare your “wonderful” and selfish system with ours from the third world, go after the big ones!!!