Venezuela's privately owned hospitals and clinics if they fail to
reduce health care costs.
"If the owners of the private clinics don't want to obey the laws,
then the private clinics will be nationalized," Chavez said in a
nationally televised speech. "They will become part of the public
health service."
Venezuela has a two-tiered health system in which wealthier, insured
patients often can afford prompter, better treatment at private
hospitals.
"This is the evil of capitalism," Chavez said of the
health care costs at private clinics. "We have to regulate this
progressively, transforming the savage capitalist market into a market
of solidarity."
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