|
medpundit |
||
 |
 |
|
Wednesday, May 14, 2003...China's regime has spent decades providing incentives for its citizens to lie to officials and to utterly mistrust what might loosely be called the healthcare system. That's not solely because salaries are so low, and incentives so twisted, that the quality of surgery in China is widely described as being a direct function of the size of the bribe paid to the surgical team. There's also the matter that China's government has for years poured medical resources into the state's one-child policy, with its penalties, forced abortions and sterilizations. In recent years, enforcement has been breaking down, thanks both to the power of bribes and the ability of China's increasingly mobile population to evade the authorities. This, a China-born demographer tells me, has produced an underworld of pregnant women on the lam, a class significant enough to merit its own name in Chinese slang: Chaosheng youjidui, or "birth-quota-breaking guerrillas." I think we should call them Madonna guerillas. posted by Sydney on 5/14/2003 09:29:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
|
