Operation Dragon
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Ion Mihai Pacepa. Operation Dragon
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In Memory of Nancye Miller and Maurice Anthony Miller, with love and admiration
To Mary Lou Pacepa, who helped me to look at my past with American eyes
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People in the United States are not used to baksheesh, but in the future, if our health care system is being run by bureaucrats, we will soon get the hang of it. It may not start out as blatant bribes, but soon bribery is sure to become the rule in one way or another. In France, for instance, the government bureaucracy recently introduced a €1 franchise on every medical consultation, described as a “contribution au remboursement de la dette sociale” (contribution to the repayment of the social debt). That was followed by an €18 franchise on “costly” medical procedures. Now French patients are learning that if they discreetly slip an envelope with cash into the pocket of the doctor’s white lab coat hanging in his office, they will get more “attention.” And a little extra attention may indeed be vital in a centralized system in which doctors are obliged by law to see sixty to seventy patients a day.
The 2007 Romanian movie The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, which won more than twenty international prizes, depicts the Semashko-style health care system through the heartbreaking true story of Constantin Nica, a retired Romanian engineer who had the misfortune of growing old in a country that still ran a nightmarish government health care system twenty years after its last Communist dictator was gunned down by his own people.
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