healthcare in the Soviet Union

How bad was the healthcare in the Soviet Union?

Vladimir Lebedev-Schmidthof, Born in the Soviet Union, live in Russia for all my life. Married, with kids.
Answered Jun 30
The first negative aspect is that it was free and universal.
[и первый, с порный, как и остальные, ваще гря, юмор наверно]

There were free birth clinics where our mothers gave birth to us. Newborn us were clothed and fed and vaccinated on the very first hour of our lives. This must be the second terrible thing.

The third terrible thing is that every child was personally watched by a local pediatrician as well as a nurse. If a child became sick, the mother called the clinic and the doctor came to the child.

The fourth terrible thing is that sick leaves for mothers were covered by the national insurance program.

The fifth absolutely horrible thing is that there were regular medical examinations in kindergartens and schools. A bunch of doctors examined children for various things. [диспансеризация]

The sixth thing is that there were also dentist examination and possible treatment. Not shiny as modern but it did work.

The same kind of examinations was made on all (or almost all) factories and other places of work. At least once a year, all personnel was examined by a team of doctors.

In 1971 (just for example) there were 697,800 doctors in the Soviet Union (Source: Народное хозяйство СССР), 2195000 nurses, 25800 hospitals with 2727000 places. Considering the Soviet Union population in 1971 as 243.9 million, there were 2.86 doctors per 1000 people.

Just as a comparison, the United States had some 1.5 doctors per 1000 people (according to the graph here: Physicians in the United States - Wikipedia)

After the breakaway of the Soviet Union, the average age started to shorten. Medicine is to blame. [видимо, имеет в иду продолжительность жизни, но не учтён факт её последующего роста, совмещённого с оптимизацией]

Ничего не было, по кр мере, не перечислено того, что касается пенсионного возраста.