How Taiwan transformed its health care system

Re:How Taiwan transformed its health care system by mc32 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @09:23PM (#16038992)

True enough. It's just not common usage to use "its" as an absolute possessive like that. Whereas other possessives lend themselves to that usage.

In other words it's typically used as a possessive determiner in this construction.

It's somewhat similar to the following:

-Have you eaten?

-Yes, I've.

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Re:How Taiwan transformed its health care system by yellow_postit on Sunday December 31, 2017 @05:42AM (#16040096)

And thus your first statement gets completely overshadowed by a minor, and to me meaningless, grammatical discussion.

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