china

There was an NPR report this week about health care in China, talking about how hundreds of thousands of people there are dying needlessly because they can't access health care. NPR mentioned that on average, the government pays for about 10% of citizen's health care costs.

Compare this to the fact that in the US, the government covers about 45% of people's health care costs, despite the fact that we're theoretically a non-socialist government. I'll leave my rant about that aside, because that's not really the purpose of this post.

Also, average unemployment in China is at 20%. Compare that to the average unemployment in the US unemployment of 4.8%.

The reason I'm mentioning all this is it begs the question, why the hell is China communist? What in the world do their citizens think the perceived benefit is? Communism at its core is supposed to care for its citizens, and it's completely and utterly failing to do that as well as an evil, heartless, capitalist society.

I'd be curious to hear *any* benefits that are being afforded by communism in China, since I'm unable to see any. You'd think that the citizens would change their government.