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.
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