Does Russia have good healthcare?

If I wanted to buy contacts, could I in Russia? If I was sick, could I easily go to a hospital for care? Is healthcare expensive?

Russia has excellent healthcare in the larger cities with many qualified doctors. Compared to the cost of healthcare in the US, it is very reasonably priced. You can buy most all of the popular brands of contacts at the pharmacy and there are western style hospital facilities. The greatest difference is between the cities and the remote areas. Some clinics in the remote areas don't have hot water piped in and a few don't have cold water piped either. In Russia, the services are available but you may have to travel if you live in outlying areas.

no. no it does not.
see: http://youtu.be/JsUH8llvTZo

i can't embed the video, but basically people get shipped to housing projects in siberia where the ground is covered in needles, and they are so dissolusioned that they invented this poisonous drug called 'Krokodil' that they make out of things like gasoline and a russian over-the-counter eyedrop formula just because it has desomorphine in it. usually people end up in abandoned old projects next to the regular projects because there is no work, and they are increasingly sick or end up in trouble with the law, so they just kind of plan out their last few days and take this drug that exanguinates their organs, causing them to rot from the inside out. by the time you see the bruise on your leg, if you poke it, a large section of your leg will crumble and fall apart.

there is almost no distinction made between born-again christian evangelism and medical treatment, so if they're lucky these people end up living in new age evangelical cults. there are no centrally gov't funded rehabs, so all rehab centers are private enterprises, and are usually missions from corporate churches. the orthodox church, also, calls all other christian denominations cults and denounces their existance in russia. now, as Putin increasingly sponsors the orthodox church as a branch of government, these 'centers', most of which are at bare-bones functionality already, will probably be driven out of business. many of the churches running the 'rehab centers' in russia are american.