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Some wealthy countries withhold medical treatment from their own Citizens, no matter how much they need it. 8 years old and need a kidney transplant? Kidney is ready to go, but if a parent doesn't have health insurance, the kidney goes to the rich guy, and the poor kid dies.

I wonder which country would do that? Surely not the richest, most powerful nation on the planet.

The entire cyberpunk genre is a metaphor about wealthy vs poor.

It's not that simple. Corporations (including those producing and distributing drugs) are interested in spreading on as much markets as possible. In many poor countries it's more convenient for dictators to slow down or completely stop progress to subdue poor masses (only loyal heads from army, militia, intelligence and their families get all most modern medical treatment, while others can even starve or shit to death for example). Moreover, in many cases, spread on other markets not really depends on regime types much. Usually it's enough for regime to just give a permission to certain corp to sell on it's territory's market, so corp just fills it with it's products at regular or region-specific prices (usually lower than in developed countries). So it may be a totalitarian regime, even waging occupative war, but with almost all the goodies (all the essential ones and almost all fancy unnecessary ones) etc., simply because drugs and cosmetics aren't parts for shahed drones for example. Tho if you'll grow big in such market, dicktator will just throw you (franchise owner, or official representative of some corp) out of the window and replace you with some loyal puppet to just cut the buzz (even if they suck as managers and whole business will eventually die — they are more interested in quick money, not long lasting investment plans with sophisticated profit calculations). And loyal members are assured that it's the only way of existence and generally one step aside from party's line and your dead, so they are just calmly nod their heads to all the bullshit and oppression. Profit on the first place, even for so called "communists". It's an extreme (ultra?) radicalised inhumane form of capitalism, progress and welfare are completely forgotten at this point and it's no longer an adequate capitalism or not capitalism at all. imo...