Reason #4,283 why not to go to this country.

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Do you know what sort of behaviour really says “Land of the Brave and Home of the Free” to me?

It's when a tourist is hospitalised, you then take her two children and imprison them in an orphanage.
For extra credit, make the mother discharge her self and track down her daughters herself, still clad in her hospital gown.
For the special prize, send them a letter when the get home saying that the mother is now under investigation (presumably for child abuse).

Nothing says ‘sane, functioning society’ like being institutionally incapable of telling the difference between healthy children temporarily cared for for innocent reasons (like their mother falling ill with pneumonia, for instance), and potentially abused children being cared for because of neglect or ill-treatment.



(via: BB)

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No, not really surprised...

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... and you won't be surprised either when I tell you that REALLY HIGH-RANKING members of the last federal government thought, on the subject of health systems:

Yeah, we need price signals and competition and free enterprise stuff.

No, please let's NOT have a US-style health system!

It's broken. It's REALLY broken and it's hard to see it getting fixed again any time soon...