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Old 06-11-2003, 08:10 AM   #105
linknoid
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Re: China Healthcare system

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Originally posted by Billy
Now in many rural areas people have no enough money to cure the serious diseases, like cancer, hepatitis, they wait for heath to save the money for their families. The necromancy still exists to cure diseases in the rural areas.
I'm not sure if your translation came across correctly. By "necromancy", are you saying that they cure diseases by just letting them kill you, rather than treating them? Or is the meaning literal, to quote a definition by dictionary.com: "The practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future" or " Black magic; sorcery." Either way, it doesn't sound like a very attractive option for health care.

Or did you mean something else entirely?
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