[Patriot365]

“Cuba’s a poor country,” he marveled. “But they have a lower child mortality rate than us….their public health system is quite remarkable.”

They always tout this child mortality hog wash but never tell that in Cuba over 30% of pregnancies are terminated by abortion. Their public health system is a shambles. He was only taken to the political elites hospitals.

[Liz]

“Cuba’s a poor country,” Harkin marveled. “But they have a lower child mortality rate than us….their public health system is quite remarkable.” ....never mentioning that over 30% of pregnancies are aborted. Or that Cuba's public health system is a shambles. Harkin was too stupid to know he was duped---being shown hospitals of the politically-connected elite.

MIAMI HERALD 2008 Cubans who need medical treatment often use social networks or barter favors to have doctors see them outside the official Cuban clinic settings.

NO SURGICAL THREAD OR BANDAGES If people had to go to the hospital, they prepare in advance, getting surgical thread and bandages on their own, even obtaining drugs from the United States.