What can we learn from North Korea?
How to provide every person with free health care.
In 2001 North Korea spent 3% of its gross domestic product on health care.
Beginning in the 1950s, the DPRK put great emphasis on healthcare, and between 1955 and 1986, the number of hospitals grew from 285 to 2,401, and the number of clinics – from 1,020 to 5,644.
There are hospitals attached to factories and mines.
Since 1979 more emphasis has been put on traditional Korean medicine, based on treatment with herbs and acupuncture.
A national telemedicine network was launched in 2010. It connects the Kim Man Yu Hospital in Pyongyang with 10 provincial medical facilities.
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We need a “*21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace & Prosperity*.”
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