Comments on: Notes and Thoughts http://mattschiavenza.com/2008/10/21/notes-and-thoughts/ From the Dragon to the Apple- A Sinophile in New York Tue, 22 May 2012 05:30:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: kate http://mattschiavenza.com/2008/10/21/notes-and-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-37954 kate Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:15:36 +0000 http://mattschiavenza.com/?p=369#comment-37954 hey matt, really enjoy your blog- lots of good info and interesting insights! can you tell me where you got the info on the planned change in health coverage? i'd not heard about that before. cheers! hey matt, really enjoy your blog- lots of good info and interesting insights! can you tell me where you got the info on the planned change in health coverage? i’d not heard about that before. cheers!

]]> By: FOB http://mattschiavenza.com/2008/10/21/notes-and-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-37517 FOB Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:51:48 +0000 http://mattschiavenza.com/?p=369#comment-37517 "They've also announced that by 2020, all Chinese will have nationalized health care." China has always had a nationalized health care (socialized medicine) until recent years when they started to privitize many SOEs (state-owned enterprise). New private and semi-private hospitals in China are too expensive for the majority of poor Chinese citizens. For the sake of harmony, the power that be see the need to to spread the wealth around again. I wonder if Barack Obama got his idea of "spreading the wealth around" from communist China since Obama has praised the "vastly superior" China on a few occasions. “They’ve also announced that by 2020, all Chinese will have nationalized health care.”

China has always had a nationalized health care (socialized medicine) until recent years when they started to privitize many SOEs (state-owned enterprise). New private and semi-private hospitals in China are too expensive for the majority of poor Chinese citizens. For the sake of harmony, the power that be see the need to to spread the wealth around again. I wonder if Barack Obama got his idea of “spreading the wealth around” from communist China since Obama has praised the “vastly superior” China on a few occasions.

]]> By: Kellen http://mattschiavenza.com/2008/10/21/notes-and-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-37347 Kellen Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:01:59 +0000 http://mattschiavenza.com/?p=369#comment-37347 "Palin was the mayor of an Alaskan town smaller than the average Kunming housing complex" i think i'm going to have to use this. i'm on a travel writing binge at the moment. jason elliot's books on iran and afghanistan (read out of order) and now Colin Thubron's silk road tavels. before all that, Travels With a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. not sure i could tolerate his distaste for the developing world, but maybe if i see this i'll pick it up and give it a go. think it's worth reading the one from earlier in his life first? “Palin was the mayor of an Alaskan town smaller than the average Kunming housing complex”

i think i’m going to have to use this.

i’m on a travel writing binge at the moment. jason elliot’s books on iran and afghanistan (read out of order) and now Colin Thubron’s silk road tavels. before all that, Travels With a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. not sure i could tolerate his distaste for the developing world, but maybe if i see this i’ll pick it up and give it a go.

think it’s worth reading the one from earlier in his life first?

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