CORNEL DACOSTA cornel at btinternet.com Fri Nov 2 03:42:01 PDT 2007 wrote: > As to the health system in America, I can't wait for Hillary to make it. > Mervyn Lobo <mervynalobo at yahoo.ca> wrote > Cornel, I have received (free) medical treatment in Cuba. There is no other country in the Caribbean that offers the health care facilities that the Cubans do. The Cubans are also in Africa offering free medical treatment in Tanzania and other countries. Come to think of it, Castro has even offered free medical care to the US. In fact, after Katrina, he offered free medical services to the Americans before the US govt did. > Mario responds: > There are advantages and disadvantages in every health care system, whether the supposedly free nationalized systems we find in Britain, Canada and Cuba [which are really not free but paid for through higher taxes, and in impoverished communist Cuba's case I'm not sure where the money comes from] or the expensive and mostly privately paid system that exists in the US, with some free or subsidized services for the very poor. > I'm not sure why Cornel wants Hillary Clinton's version of nationalized health care for the US when he lives in the UK, which already has nationalized health care. Ms. Clinton's ideas for a national health care system for the US were soundly rejected when her husband was president in 1993. > We often see Brits and Canadians come to the US for certain types of health care that they cannot get in their nationalized systems when they are placed on a waiting list which they feel puts their health at risk. So, apparently, the US system has some benefits. > Here is a recent article critical about one facet of Britain's health care system: > http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hepoIZXORFSRAA7b3tNky677s9zQ > Like Cornel, Mervyn obviously admires the Cuban health care system. In this they share the opinion of left wing propagandist, Michael Moore, who recently produced a documentary called Sicko that was critical of the US health care system and also praised the Cuban health care facilities. > However, all is not milk and honey in Cuba, where there seems to be a different experience for average Cuban citizens versus Cuban VIPs and foreigners visiting Cuba. Suspicious of Mr. Moore's claims some enterprising critics used hidden cameras in tightly controlled Cuba and produced some information that shows the Cuban health care system in a somewhat different light, as we see from the following link: > http://www.newsmax.com/fontova/cuban_healthcare/2007/10/19/42307.html > And the following article reports that the flight by Cuban citizens to the US continues in full force, notwithstanding the supposedly poor state of health care in the US and the supposedly fantastic health care provided free in Cuba. > http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/15/africa/cuba.php > And, finally, in a study released just recently by the independent Canadian think tank, the Fraser Institute, we see their following conclusions about the Canadian system: > http://www.fraserinstitute.org/commerce.web/newsrelease.aspx?nID=5036 > To summarize, there are major advantages and disadvantages in both nationalized systems and privately paid systems. > Mario. > "A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." - paraphrasing Ronald Reagan. >
