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Cuba's Healthcare: Medical Apartheid

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www.therealcuba.com

National Post Series: Isabel Vincent, "For Cubans, a Bitter Pill," National Post (Canada), July 4, 2004, p. A11, available at http://www.cubaverdad.net/references/for_cubans_a_bitter_pill.htm

Anthony DePalma, "Michael Moore's Math," New York Times, May 27, 2007, available at www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/weekinreview/27depalma.html?ex=1338091200&en=1bdee589­4044959f&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

"Health Care in Cuba: Myth Versus Reality," The Cuban American National Foundation, available at http://www.canf.org/Issues/medicalapartheid.htm

"Paradise Island," National Review Online, May 2, 2007, available at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWNhNzA2YmY3NTNjZjZhNjE1NmZjMDFkOTdjN2Q4...

"Michael Moore's Cuba Problem," Miami Herald Blog, May 10, 2007, available at
http://blogs.herald.com/cuban_connection/2007/05/michael_moores_.html

www.therealcuba.com

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  • are you Kidding me?

    dude where I live Meds are sky high, ppl r dying 'cause they can't go to a good Hospital and all ur saying is this BS.

    U wanna know why Cuba is the best 'cause they have a healthcare system similar to that of Europe or Japan.

    and to be honest (and I mean no disrespect) most of the people who had fled Cuba for the US where the Fat Cats that lost everything once Castro came into power.

    Viva La Revolucion Coñio!

  • @calends And if you adress an ideological issue in a language you learned in school, you may sound "academic". But it's not the case. I'm a computer repairman and a freelance musician. Of course, responding insults to insults is a worlwide reknowned symptom of "illiterate retardism"

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  • lies lies lies

    usa all time only lies and propaganda

  • @Legacy285 i do not agree with the embargo either. it only gives castro an excuse for his failures.in a communist economy like in cuba,n korea n the old eastern block, has proven to be failures, as the goverment owns all businesses n industries, killing the insentive to work n prosper. its an old proven fact. even the russians admited they could no longer sustain it despite vast resourses. mentioning china u prove my point. china switched to free market economy while d old rulers remained. boom.

  • @mfe111 Every country under US embargo is being strangled economically. When the US puts an embargo on u it sux. And its not just embargo, Cuba has had to worry about US doing coups and things like that. I do not like communism, and I do not agree with it. All i am saying is, it is not because of communism that Cuba is in this situation. China is a communist country and is the 2nd largest economy in the world, and will in the next 20-30 years take over USA's spot as #1.

  • @Legacy285 yes, there were bad things in cuba, a dictator pinochet style, and mafia presence like it was in vegas at one point. thats why there was a revolution. to bring back the constitution of 1940 and democracy, not communism. but am talking about the standard of living, puchasing power, economic oportunities with a large midle class just like in USA, n a healthcare that was at par with europe. the embargo, the excuse. cuba trades w the whole world, even food n medicines from USA.u know dat?

  • @mfe111 Cuba was like Switzerland?? hahahaha thats funny. Before Castro there was Fulgencio Batista, and Cuba was run by the MAFIA. You think Cuba was better then? Cuba has been under US sanctions for decades and is still better then a lot of comparable 3rd world countries.

  • @Legacy285 glad u touch on that. problem is cuba was not haiti or the republic of congo before castro. cuba was more like switzerland, new zeland or austria. u right, dont compare them to the usa, but to small countries with high standard of living. cubans could enter the usa without visa, as they did not care to scape. there were more americans living in cuba than cubans in usa, and there was a waiting list of europeans seeking visa to live in cuba. now,u have to compare cuba with the worst.

  • @jemmytaveras

    Totally agree.

  • Why are we comparing Cuba to the United States? Cuba is a third-world country, we should be comparing it to other third world countries. When you compare Cuba to other third world countries they have one of the best health care systems. Not to mention the fact that their economy has been strangled by a US embargo for decades now. When you take all these into consideration they have a decent system. Is it perfect HELL NO, but its good cosnidering the situation there in.

  • @jemmytaveras Also everyone is able to go to the hospital, even illegal immigrants, so that's false also.

  • @jemmytaveras Then what you say is wrong, because many people like this man's father fled for a reason. They have a health care system for the common man with terrible clinics and filthy conditions. It's so funny to see him bring those people into a hospital only for tourists, people here just eat it all up.

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