Syria

[Mohammed]

There was never health-care with a level of country-wide accessibility and quality on par with most western countries in Syria. I think that's probably obvious enough that it goes without saying to anyone actively engaged in this thread. But, maybe not. Perhaps to the Australian Mental Health professional and Middle Eastern expert that means that health care never existed in Syria.

Or, perhaps an interference with standard civilian service due to civil war interruption and focus is equivalent to health care being currently "non-existent" according to aussiefriend standards.

In either case, "no" obviously doesn't literally mean "no" to aussie. It's just an absolute that she tossed out there, likely due to lack of understanding or in an inept attempt to bolster her point.

Anyway, I found the Syrian tax and health care stats/data released by the World Health Organization interesting in context with the discussion upthread, even if Director Cho failed to run them through the aussiefriend logic translator prior to release.

Before the shit hit the fan, I would say that Syria was one fabulous place. The biggest restaurant on the planet? Damascus. So if they got enough waiters to feed 30.000 people a day, surely they got nurses well qualified to dish out sponge bathes.

If foreigners judge the American Health Care system by Michael Moore's "Sicko", it makes Mogadishu look like a hospital filled with Swedish porn stars as doctors.