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Control is implanted in every crevice of the system, from the individual dossiers to the vigilante block committees. "We have the largest number of police per capita in the world," says Sanchez, and he claims that nearly 1% of the population is in jail. In the past few months, he says, 5,000 to 10,000 citizens have been imprisoned for illegal economic activities, sentenced to eight to 10 years for slaughtering a state-owned cow or stealing state property. He warns, "The government is pushing the country to the edge of violence...
Altogether the foreign born had a higher per capita income than the native born ($15,033 vs. $14,367) in 1989, but their median family income was almost $4,000 less than that of the native born...
Before the technological explosion, we could afford to give almost every patient the best available care. But as the per capita consumption of health care reaches and exceeds $5,000 per year, current behavior will no longer be feasible. The new maxim of the health care industry will be economy: the challenge of making the best use of scarce resources...
...cooperative business and private enterprise, China's economy has mushroomed, growing an average of 9% a year, doubling the size of the economy every 10 years. In 1992 gross domestic product increased 12.8%, and this year it is growing at 13% despite a series of austerity measures. Though per capita income is only about $380, by some calculations of purchasing power China has the third largest economy in the world (after the U.S. and Japan) and could become No. 1 in two decades...
Relman said health spending will total nearly $950 billion this year, or $3,600 per capita. This is equivalent to 14.5 percent of the United States' gross national product (GNP), he said...