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The entrepreneurial spirit and Soviet medicine

In: Privatization and Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Countries

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  • David E. Powell

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For decades — until the era of glasnost — Soviet propagandists spoke rhapsodically about the wonderful quality of medical care available in the USSR. Year after year, official spokesmen asserted that health care was free and readily available to all, that their country had trained more physicians and built more treatment facilities than any other in the world, and had provided all the conditions needed for people to lead full lives. Only ‘the first socialist state’, they said, because it was guided by collectivist and humanistic principles, could guarantee high-quality medical care from cradle to grave.

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  • David E. Powell, 1992. "The entrepreneurial spirit and Soviet medicine," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Bruno Dallago & Gianmaria Ajani & Bruno Grancelli (ed.), Privatization and Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Countries, pages 215-244, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12393-3_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12393-3_13
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