>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: POL: Cuban doctors testify on medicine in Cuba
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:14:13 -0400
>
>For those who are still living pie in the sky over the 'great' system of
>socialized medicine in Cuba, I direct you to an AP article by Pauline
>Jelinek
>today about their testimony before congress yesterday about the state of
>medicine and things in general in Cuba, and their own attempt to defect
>from a
>Cuban medical mission in Zimbabwe, how the Canadian Embassy turned them
>away.
>They detail how the 'luxurious' hospitals that foreigners see and use when
>they
>visit Cuba are reserved only for them and Communist Party officials (where
>have
>we heard this before?), and the common Cuban has difficulty even getting
>basic
>anti-biotics and pain killers.
>
>I don't have a link, as I saw it in the Boston Globe today.
Most students of the situation in Cuba who are also interested in general
health issues agree on why health is generally good in Cuba: Meat is not
easy to find for the average person there.
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