No, that doesn't come under 'universal care' but Angela Burns, who reckons she's a pretty simple soul, lists what she believes does: being born, dying, having a heart - that's pretty universal, orthopaedic care.

BBC: Hywel, Betsi, Angela, Antoinette

About a week ago one of the commenters challenged me to do a post that looked at Russian health in more depth: not simply to look at the overall number of people being born or dying, as I have done repeatedly, but to look in more detail at how often people were getting sick and what they were being stricken with.

FORBES: Connect

Ask them why the numbers of Welsh speakers is down here, there, pretty much everywhere and they'll tell you it's a combination of things - over-reporting in 2001, parents not speaking it to their children, older Welsh speakers dying, fewer children being born, bright, young Welsh speakers leaving the heartlands to come to Cardiff, leaving Wales and disappearing from the figures altogether.

BBC: 2011: The Year of Sharp Decreases

The charity's report also charts the numbers of babies dying within 24 hours of being born.

BBC: UK fails to make top 20 in mother's index

He is fired, promoted, rehired and refired, has found a new place to live and is moving out, is moving in and repainting, is in the other room dying and in the kitchen being born.

NEWYORKER: The TV

To those who claim that Peru's middle class is dying, Rolando Arellano, a market researcher for Mega Plaza, responds that it is being born anew in Lima North, largely overlooked by the city's business and political elites.

ECONOMIST: A middle class amid the shanties