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The Myth of Cuban Health Care (Essay by Fred Thompson)
ABC Radio ^ | 05/02/07 | Fred Dalton Thompson

Posted on 05/02/2007 8:59:03 AM PDT by SE Mom

You might have read the stories about filmmaker Michael Moore taking ailing workers from Ground Zero in Manhattan to Cuba for free medical treatments. According to reports, he filmed the trip for a new movie that bashes America for not having government-provided health care.

Now, I have no expectation that Moore is going to tell the truth about Cuba or health care. I defend his right to do what he does, but Moore's talent for clever falsehoods has been too well documented. Simply calling his movies documentaries rather than works of fiction, I think, may be the biggest fiction of all.

While this PR stunt has obviously been successful -- here I am talking about it -- Moore's a piker compared to Fidel Castro and his regime. Moore just parrots the story they created -- one of the most successful public relations coups in history. This is the story of free, high quality Cuban health care.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcradio.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: castrocare; cuba; fred; fredthompson; hillarycare; rfr; runfredrun; socializedmedicine; thompson
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FRED!
1 posted on 05/02/2007 8:59:06 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: jellybean; STARWISE; Politicalmom; Sturm Ruger; Beelzebubba; xsmommy

Check it out:)


2 posted on 05/02/2007 9:00:16 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet -Run, Fred, Run!)
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To: SE Mom

Castro had to bring in surgeons from Spain to straighten out his previous operation by Cuban surgeons.


3 posted on 05/02/2007 9:02:19 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Politicalmom

ping


4 posted on 05/02/2007 9:03:28 AM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: SE Mom

In before the FH ping! :-)

Fred is spot on!! Castro and Moore are small little men with small little...well, you know. They act big to compensate for that fact. ;-)


5 posted on 05/02/2007 9:04:07 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Bible Thumper and Proud! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
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To: Piquaboy

But..but...but...Michael Moore says..


6 posted on 05/02/2007 9:04:15 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet -Run, Fred, Run!)
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To: SE Mom

Thanks, Fred.


7 posted on 05/02/2007 9:04:17 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: SE Mom

Andrea Greenspan will be shocked to hear this!


8 posted on 05/02/2007 9:05:37 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Issue in Doubt." -Col. David Monroe Shoup, USMC 1943)
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To: SE Mom

He’s going to run, no doubt about it.


9 posted on 05/02/2007 9:06:09 AM PDT by Badeye (Hiding the kooks in the biker bar won't help, Sally)
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To: Piquaboy

From Fred’s piece:

“...According to Forbes magazine, by the way, Castro is now personally worth approximately $900 million. So when he desperately needed medical treatment recently, he could afford to fly a Spanish surgeon, with equipment, on a chartered jet to Cuba. What does that say about free Cuban health care?...”


10 posted on 05/02/2007 9:06:15 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet -Run, Fred, Run!)
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To: SE Mom

Fred, we need you, Buddy.


11 posted on 05/02/2007 9:10:23 AM PDT by ryan71 (You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
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To: SE Mom

I have heard that Castro eliminated AIDS by tattooing and quarantining infected individuals, with the penalty of death for violating quarantine. Is there any truth to this?


12 posted on 05/02/2007 9:10:34 AM PDT by Spok
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To: Badeye

Yep, he’s running.

:)


13 posted on 05/02/2007 9:11:13 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet -Run, Fred, Run!)
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To: SE Mom

In before the Fredhead ping.


14 posted on 05/02/2007 9:11:54 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Why vote for Duncan Hunter in 2008? Look at my profile.)
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To: Badeye
He’s going to run, no doubt about it.

and he'll get my vote

15 posted on 05/02/2007 9:12:11 AM PDT by Smedley
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To: SE Mom

- Cuban health care seems really impressive:

http://www.babalublog.com/archives/001470.html

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y00/ago00/04e2.htm

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y00/jul00/11e1.htm

I wonder why people from all over the world go to the US for medical treatment instead of Cuba.


16 posted on 05/02/2007 9:12:43 AM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: SE Mom

ouch... that’s gonna leave a mark. and yes we need Fred


17 posted on 05/02/2007 9:19:18 AM PDT by SPRINK
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Fred-mentary (commentary by Fred)

Let me know if you'd like to be a FRedHead.

18 posted on 05/02/2007 9:21:40 AM PDT by jellybean (FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT! Proud to be an Ann-droid and a Steyn-aholic)
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Fred-mentary (commentary by Fred)

Let me know if you'd like to be a FRedHead.

19 posted on 05/02/2007 9:22:11 AM PDT by jellybean (FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT! Proud to be an Ann-droid and a Steyn-aholic)
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To: SE Mom

Certainly there is vastly more EQUALITY of care in Cuba.

But “equality” is not “quality”. BIG difference.


20 posted on 05/02/2007 9:22:36 AM PDT by alloysteel (For those who cannot turn back time, there is always the option of re-writing history.)
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