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Old 03-25-2012, 04:13 PM
 
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Can you answer that please? If social medicine is so bad, why would Chavez leave his country of oil reserves for a country that has a communist government with socialized medicine to get cancer treatment?
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Old 03-25-2012, 04:15 PM
 
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Venezuela is far from a Country of Capitalism, Hugo Chavez is a dictator.
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Old 03-25-2012, 04:17 PM
 
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There are a myriad of factors that go into such a decision. Social stupidity via religion retarding medicine as is the case in the Muslim world, culture of respecting medical traditions, etc. This has nothing to do with economic policy, to make a connection is a stretch to say the least.
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Old 03-25-2012, 04:18 PM
 
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What Capitalist country would even accept him for medical treatment?
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Old 03-25-2012, 04:19 PM
 
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Venezuela is far from a Country of Capitalism, Hugo Chavez is a dictator.
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Old 03-25-2012, 04:21 PM
 
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Venezuela is far from a Country of Capitalism, Hugo Chavez is a dictator.
I am very sorry, you are wrong. I split my time between Caracas and Miami and Hugo Chavez is not a dictator and Venezuela is more of a capitalist nation than the USA.
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Old 03-25-2012, 04:23 PM
 
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I am very sorry, you are wrong. I split my time between Caracas and Miami and Hugo Chavez is not a dictator and Venezuela is more of a capitalist nation than the USA.
Yes, they are so capitalist that the government has seized 1100 private companies in the past decade.
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Old 03-25-2012, 04:24 PM
 
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I am very sorry, you are wrong. I split my time between Caracas and Miami and Hugo Chavez is not a dictator and Venezuela is more of a capitalist nation than the USA.
Chavez is a dictator who is loved by the American left, his regime rules Ven. like any dictatorship would. He controls the media and has nationalized many aspects of Ven., that can hardly be called Capitalism.

I have immediate family in Ven, Caracas and Maracay.
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Old 03-25-2012, 04:25 PM
 
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Can you answer that please? If social medicine is so bad, why would Chavez leave his country of oil reserves for a country that has a communist government with socialized medicine to get cancer treatment?

Cuba has a great health care system.
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Old 03-25-2012, 04:25 PM
 
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Yes, they are so capitalist that the government has seized 1100 private companies in the past decade.
Exactly. So capitalist that they've "acquired" every media outlet in the country and those that they couldn't steal they destroyed.
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