Running an orphanage in China vs. living in a mansion in USA

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      In 2030 the only people claiming to be Taiwanese will be 6 people running a "governent in exile" in DC.

      Every time they step out onto the street they have to wear a shirt rcplainging how they're "one of the good ones". This only ! marginally reduces the amount of racial slurs they are subjected to.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        America, home of the fortune cookie and the Chinese Finger Trap

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    WTF is up with Ken in the middle right pic? Is that Ken?

  • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I was gonna say something about China still using medical insurance like the USA and maybe that shouldn't count as UHC, but holy moly apparently 95% of Chinese people have health insurance.

    Talking with people on HelloTalk, they make it seem so similar to American healthcare. I suppose it is, with the exception that they don't have large swathes of people unable to access it.

  • JoeBrandonOfficial [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    China has free and universal Healthcare? I thought they didn't, also I'm pretty sure the Netherlands has universal but not free Healthcare

    • nine_leven [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      PRC's healthcare system is definitely better than the USA by most metrics, especially access, but it's absolutely not free or universal. My fiance's daughter-in-law works in a hospital pharmacy in Shanghai, which has a ton of homeopathic/traditional Chinese medicine bullshit going on unfortunately as well. Placebo effect is pretty strong though. Anyway, if you get cancer in China you're still pretty fucked financially, except that you probably have a pretty strong family network that's going to pool their resources to finance it.

      It's likely to change in the near future, contemporary Mandarin dramas (亲爱的小孩 comes to mind) depicting the financial stress of such situations have been pretty popular and people all "know" that the state must eventually make it free & universal.

      • Grebgreb [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        contemporary Mandarin dramas (亲爱的小孩 comes to mind) depicting the financial stress of such situations have been pretty popular and people all “know” that the state must eventually make it free & universal.

        joke about how people watch Breaking Bad and idolize Walt to the point of sending hatemail to Anna Gunn.

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Poor Ken has looked a little fucked up face-wise every entry since 3rd Strike. My least favorite is still his model in 4.

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    Street Fighter's, Ken, another victim of the opioid epidemic.

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    Does Blanka have insurance? Does he even have any ID whatsoever?