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...France's state-run health insurance scheme reimburses 60% to 70% of most medical bills. The remaining costs are assumed by the patient. More than 90% of French citizens pay for supplementary health insurance to cover these costs - mostly from state-run providers called mutuals. But those who can afford it are increasingly abandoning mutuals in favor of private insurance. For most ailments, that makes little difference: 80% of France's general practitioners work under a regime that caps how much they can charge. But the reverse is true for specialists and surgeons - 80% of them set their own fees...
...year ago, Pelosi was labeled a "disgusting figure" in a commentary by the state-run Xinhua news service. Her longtime support of human rights - as a U.S. Representative in 1991, she helped unveil a banner in Tiananmen Square honoring "those who died for democracy in China" - is seen by some mainland observers as a means to intimidate the country. When riots erupted across Tibet in March 2008, Pelosi met with the Dalai Lama in India and denounced China, calling on the world to pressure the Chinese leadership. Xinhua responded by saying that "she confused right with wrong on ... Tibet, held...
...platform dubbed "New Politics" once called for denying the nation's rural majority the right to vote on the basis that they are uneducated and sell their votes to corrupt politicians. The movement's positions range from reasonable - such as reforming corruption in politics and pushing for an unbiased state-run media - to questionable at best, with one PAD leader recently praising North Korea's land reform program, saying that although North Koreans were starving, they had pride of small land ownership...
...sympathy is even more surprising when you consider how hard it is to get a child into kindergarten in Germany. There are 50,000 kindergartens in the country, 17,000 of which are run by local councils. (The rest are run by churches and parents' groups or are privately owned). Spaces are limited, and there are no guarantees: finding a spot for your child in a state-run nursery school is like playing the lottery, with where you live being the determining factor. At one state-run kindergarten in Cologne, teachers say 65 parents have joined the waiting list...
...When it comes to available and affordable day care, Germany lags far behind its European neighbors: only about 18% of German children under age 3 attend state-run nursery schools, compared with a European average of 35%. To try to catch up, the German government has pledged to triple the number of day-care spaces to 750,000 by 2013, and Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen, herself a mother of seven, wants to give one in three children under the age of 3 the chance to attend nursery school...