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Chuck linking to NR. First Cracker Barrel and now this? Exposed again.

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Sin, read orwell.

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To be sure, there is excellent health care on Cuba — just not for ordinary Cubans. Dr. Jaime Suchlicki of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies explains that there is not just one system, or even two: There are three. The first is for foreigners who come to Cuba specifically for medical care. This is known as “medical tourism.” The tourists pay in hard currency, which provides oxygen to the regime. And the facilities in which they are treated are First World: clean, well supplied, state-of-the-art.



The foreigners-only facilities do a big business in what you might call vanity treatments: Botox, liposuction, and breast implants. Remember, too, that there are many separate, or segregated, facilities on Cuba. People speak of “tourism apartheid.” For example, there are separate hotels, separate beaches, separate restaurants — separate everything. As you can well imagine, this causes widespread resentment in the general population.



The second health-care system is for Cuban elites — the Party, the military, official artists and writers, and so on. In the Soviet Union, these people were called the “nomenklatura.” And their system, like the one for medical tourists, is top-notch.

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Then there is the real Cuban system, the one that ordinary people must use — and it is wretched. Testimony and documentation on the subject are vast. Hospitals and clinics are crumbling. Conditions are so unsanitary, patients may be better off at home, whatever home is. If they do have to go to the hospital, they must bring their own bedsheets, soap, towels, food, light bulbs — even toilet paper. And basic medications are scarce. In Sicko, even sophisticated medications are plentiful and cheap. In the real Cuba, finding an aspirin can be a chore. And an antibiotic will fetch a fortune on the black market.



A nurse spoke to Isabel Vincent of Canada’s National Post. “We have nothing,” said the nurse. “I haven’t seen aspirin in a Cuban store here for more than a year. If you have any pills in your purse, I’ll take them. Even if they have passed their expiry date.”



The equipment that doctors have to work with is either antiquated or nonexistent. Doctors have been known to reuse latex gloves — there is no choice. When they travel to the island, on errands of mercy, American doctors make sure to take as much equipment and as many supplies as they can carry. One told the Associated Press, “The [Cuban] doctors are pretty well trained, but they have nothing to work with. It’s like operating with knives and spoons.”



And doctors are not necessarily privileged citizens in Cuba. A doctor in exile told the Miami Herald that, in 2003, he earned what most doctors did: 575 pesos a month, or about 25 dollars

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SHUT UP WITH YOUR RED SCARE, RIGHT WING TALKING POINTS CUCK.

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Inner circle of the red is always where it's at. Life of a baller.

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Fuck mad hoes, too. I mean sure they're executed and thrown in a ditch if they don't put out but women's rights are second concern to a commie bustin' a nut amirite?

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i mean thats not even right wing really its simply reporting



obviously their agenda is to push back against ignorant less information lefties like sinternet but thats a good thing, misinformation from all sides is evil

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Don't worry he's for a liberal communism however that is supposed to work. (Spoiler: It can't and it's a total pipe dream)



"obviously their agenda is to push back against ignorant less information lefties like sinternet but thats a good thing, misinformation from all sides is evil"



Agree 100%, was just poking fun at sinternets outbursts.

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libertarian socialist is almost as hilarious a label as anarcho communist

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@thiswastheyear - Stay on topic dipshit.

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anarcho - anything is automatically a huge red flag imo.

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Technically you can have that stuff at small scale, e.g. a commune. I wouldn't try to structure a modern day society that way tho, nor would I want to live in one myself. But I don't judge those who do. Well, I judge them, but I'm okay with them doing them.

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why are you being such a liberal weenie dood

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"libertarian socialist"



Basically 75-80% of this site's users haha.

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that's directed at anyone who even brings up the Cuban Healthcare system lol

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tbh i think small localized social communes were the ideal method for human organization before the population exploded but at this point anarchy is probably the best solution



and really when you think of the control corporations have on government in the "free world" it almost is a version of anarchy



which is scary until you consider the natural shift towards green tech by guys like elon musk





edit - dam ghost we think alike lets combine forces to rule the world like pinky and the brain

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The best Cuban sandwiches are in FL tho so again, nice try but you've been had.

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"anarcho - anything is automatically a huge red flag imo."



pretty sure our misguided friend is a big fan of red flags actually

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Anarchy is just the failure to come up with a solution.