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.
02/23/2010 :: 12:57:31 AM
Joseph Says:
Well, Elizabeth, it would certainly seem that you yourself have your own agenda here as this piece has nothing at all to do with the crime rate in Brazil versus the crime rate ‘elsewhere’. Further, if you are going to run with this misplaced argument, then I would advise you to look north of the border at Canada instead, which has a very similar health care system and an extremely low crime rate compared to ‘elsewhere’.
As to infant car seats, I’ve no idea where this point even came from, but it’s even less relevant to the discussion here.
Incidentally, what you’ve done here is precisely what a politician does when confronted with a topic or line of questioning that he or she either doesn’t agree with or doesn’t want to address, which is talk about something else entirely.