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The Mexican healthcare system suffers from a peculiar disease best known as financial dysfunction. Its main symptoms consist of a constantly growing number of users contrasted with revenue insufficient to cover all of the growing needs. It thus disables the effectiveness of existing institutions and risks metastasis to the most […]

Several years ago, my middle-aged father was chopping wood in the forest behind our country cottage. After not returning home on time, my mother went out searching for him. As she got closer to the forest, she heard his screams. It turned out that a tree had fallen on his […]

What would you do with a country where you have a very generous healthcare system, an aging society and a pretty complicated economic situation? Hungary is well known as a country on its way to embracing Western European standards in terms of social security and economic success. A lesser known […]

It was the 10th injection of anesthesia into my mouth, and I could still feel the dentist’s tools trying to pull my wisdom teeth. Thankfully, by the time the anesthesia was getting in, my wisdom was getting out. To get to this point, I had to wait six months in […]

By definition, healthcare plays an important role in any country’s economy, along with the food industry and many other sectors. One of the differences, though, is that, depending on the patient’s health state, it could become very expensive. This makes it the natural province for insurance companies. In Slovakia health […]