United States government researchers pointed out the fact that the Soviet Union spent far less on health care than Western nations and noted that the quality of Soviet health care was deteriorating in the 1970s and 1980s.
美国政府的研究者指出苏联实际上对医疗的投入比西方国家更少，并注意到苏联医疗的质量在1970年代和1980年代恶化。