Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: mart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; John Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; People's Voice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:20 AM Subject: [CubaNews] Joycelyn Elders: Cuba better at keeping people healthy http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/09/13/cuba.us.health.ap/index.html Joycelyn Elders: Cuba better at keeping people healthy September 13, 2001 Posted: 2:36 AM EDT (0636 GMT) Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders said Wednesday that Cuba's health care system is better at keeping people healthy than the U.S. system. After a two-day tour to speak with doctors and tour medical facilities on the communist island, Elders said she was impressed with the quality of Cuba's preventative, primary health care, especially compared with the U.S. system. "Cuba's is better," she said. "They work at keeping people healthy." Elders said the United States still had better health care for patients who were sick. Cuba lacks important medicines and equipment, said many of the five doctors who traveled to Cuba in the trip sponsored by the Disarm Education Fund. The group has sent more than $65 million worth of medicines and medical supplies to Cuba. The Cuban government has long argued against the four-decade long embargo against its country, and an increasing number of Democrats and Republicans have called for its end. President George W. Bush, however, has said he wants to maintain current U.S. policy toward Cuba. Elders served as the 16th surgeon general, from 1993-95, under President Clinton. She was fired in December 1994 after saying at a United Nations AIDS conference that discussion of masturbation should be part of sex education in schools. ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
