Venezuela OKs accepting foreign help for medicine shortage

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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/05/04/Venezuela-OKs-accepting-foreign-help-for-medicine-shortage/5191462376401/

CARACAS, Venezuela, May 4 (UPI) -- Venezuela's National Assembly approved a bill to declare a national humanitarian health crisis that would force the ruling government of President Nicolas Maduro to accept foreign medicinal aid.

The main objective of the law is to "develop the priority obligation of the state, through the national public health system, to guarantee the right to health."

Venezuela continues to experience shortages of medicine, food for the sick and infant formula, and increased maternal mortality rates and loss of transplant organs due to power failures.

The law -- officially titled the Special Law attending to the National Humanitarian Health Crisis -- will permit the declaration of an emergency, which allow Venezuela to receive medications as a form of aid from other countries, specifically in Latin America and Europe. Venezuela would also be allowed to request assistance from the World Health Organization.

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1. Just another example of what can happen when the government is responsible

For providing goods and services

When that government goes broke everything goes to hell and there is no private sector alternative

Food, clothing, toilet paper and BEER for God's sake

And now health care