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by wslh 622 days ago
Interesting perspective on the impact of corruption across different countries. It's striking how two countries with similar levels of corruption can have vastly different outcomes in specific areas. Take Argentina as an example: while it's highly corrupt, organ transplants are remarkably well-organized under a single entity, INCUCAI [1]. You can even see crystal clear stats there.

[1] https://www.argentina.gob.ar/salud/incucai
2 comments
DanielHB 622 days ago
Corruption is not a single axis, for example college entrance exams and voting in brazil are very trustworthy in my opinion.

Institutions are corrupt, not a whole country. Sure there is some level of infection between institutions but there is still a lot of a single one can do.

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forinti 621 days ago
One thing you don't see in Brazil is traffic police or bureaucrats asking for petty bribes, something which is quite common in neighbouring countries.

Corruption is a problem for sure, but I think incompetence and lack of initiative are far worse issues in the Brazilian executive.

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tarruda 621 days ago
> voting in brazil are very trustworthy

How can a closed system that cannot be audited be considered trustworthy? After the voting happens, there's no physical proof of the vote.

Highly recommend reading this: https://dfaranha.github.io/project/evoting/

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matheusmoreira 620 days ago
Because the supreme court judge has decreed that the voting machines are UNQUESTIONABLE. That's all there is to it. Not even our elected representatives get to doubt these things:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423

Fun fact: brazilians commonly express feelings of superiority towards civilized developed world nations because of these voting machines. They think americans, germans and everyone else in the world are living in the literal stone age due to their "archaic" voting processes just because it takes time to count the votes.

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vitorgrs 620 days ago
Brazil is way more decentralized in that way, especially health care, so health care quality will greatly change depending on your city even.

That said, organ transplants in Brazil are managed by the Federal Government (lists, etc), but the clinics and hospitals will usually be state or city made...

Brazil is pretty good at organ transplants, surprisingly.

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