On the way round call in at the war bunker Block House cafe for a drink; Mau Dich (37 Nam Trang, Truc Bach), the ration-style restaurant pasted with subsidy-era decor for 1980s throwbacks such as top mo (pork scratchings, 60p); and coffee den Duy Tri (43A Yen Phu) for its signature coffee with yoghurt (ca phe sua chua, 60p).
The same article cites a British study, conducted earlier this decade, in which one group of schoolchildren was fed hamburgers and French fries for lunch, while another was given World War II-style ration like corned beef and cabbage.
In order to buy any of the supplies from this government-run ration store, they need to place their fingers on a small credit-card-style machine.
She will be locked in her cell at night, fed Army-style rations and rarely permitted to see sunlight.
But that could change.Billy Tauzin, the drug industry's chief lobbyist, protests that European-style rationing would cost American lives.
Push Merck officials on the prospects for drug-price controls, and their unflinching answer is that they are "completely opposed" to such European-style "rationing" of care.
They often spend weeks on end fighting fires under punishing conditions, eating military-style rations and working in blistering heat to try to curb a wildfire's destructive spread.
For Henrique Capriles, the leader of the opposition, this new biometric system is nothing more than a Cuban-style rationing card, and a sign that the government's economic model has failed.
Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief Donald Berwick, tenuously clinging to a recess appointment, faces ongoing political assassination in part because of his support for comparative effectiveness research, which Republicans call a stalking horse for UK-style "rationing".
For a healthcare initiative partly designed to reassure sceptical consumers they won't have to put up with British-style rationing, the appearance of a virtual "waiting room" on a creaky government website that even the president hates is unfortunate, to say the least.
Add it all up, and it appears that the U.S. health system is on its way to British-style rationing.
