[glennaro]

One too many errant tennis balls to the head, I think ...

[ought-six]

What an idiot. SHE had healthcare because she was an athlete, and the communists spent lavishly on athletes even to the extent of turning women into quasi-men). For the common folk, though, healthcare was more often than not a .380 to the back of the neck.

[annelizly]

I am so sick of this prevailing argument that americans dont have access to healthcare!! Not only can everyone get it but its world class! Their just pissed that they have to pay for it!!

[El Cid]

riiight...
Everyone had access to the same quality healthcare. Be they Party Boss, members of the Party/Government, star athletes, or chump proletariats... Yup, I believe it.

[unixfox]

No free speech, no freedom of religion, no freedom to protest your government, no guns, no free elections, no choice in where you work, no free markets, but hey, free healthcare!

Sounds like a good trade off.

[vpintheak]

Communism, the race to the pit of despair. Yeah! Make us the productive miserable and the unproductive even more greedy.

[elpadre]

true - but those who could get out of Russia for treatment did so.

[elpadre]

true - but those who could get out of Russia for treatment did so.

[henkster]

Martina Lesbianova had the best health care her government could provide because she was a world-class athlete. Or maybe she was a world-class athlete because she got the best steroids. But you will notice that as soon as she got the chance to bolt to the west, she did. I guess that great healthcare system wasn’t enough to keep her.

The carpet is always more plush on the other side of the room.

[Mastador1]

Navratilova slammed those who shut down the government “because we don’t want for people to be healthy? We don’t want people to be taken care of? It’s crazy.”

Maybe she would prefer if the our government dealt with the problems of the people like Stalin and Lenin did, ruthlessly reduce the population until the problem goes away. All these liberals love communism despite the fact that there is not one place on earth it has worked. A healthy slave is still just a slave!

[Uncle Miltie]

* 100,000,000 were murdered by communism in the biggest mass slaughters exceeding the sum of all war deaths in history.

[usconservative]

On CNN, former tennis player Martina Navratilova praised "one good thing" about growing up under Communism: "we had government health care."

Right, forget the fact that Communists killed tens of millions of people in the process .... what a dumb bimbo.

[Godzilla]

She had prime health care because of her status as a star athlete. I wonder if she would be singing the same tune if she was one of the underclass.

[RetiredTexasVet]

What she didn’t say was that the healthcare was for the elite ... like her not the unwashed masses.

[DaxtonBrown]

I have Martuna’s book “How To Lick Your Opponent”. Quite an eye opener.

[Mike Darancette]

"one good thing" about growing up under Communism: "we had government health care."

So did Nazi Germany, a great way to control the masses and lock up those who don't go along.

[kcvl]

Martina Navratilova, who became one of the first openly gay sports figures when she came out in 1981.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Martina Navratilova

I knew I never liked him!

[Cyman]

If you think of an AK47 being used to clear up “ patient waiting times” with a 7.62 inoculation, yes it functioned well

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This just goes to show that the only people who love Socialism are rich Westerners who don't have to live with its consequences. When Martina was 18 and defecting from Communist Czechoslovakia to the US, what were her reasons??

Along with railing against the restrictive social culture, Navratilova tired of the bulk of her tennis winnings being pocketed by the Czech government . . . .

“It is my decision alone. … I am doing it to enhance my tennis career,” Navratilova would say of her defection from the communist state.

So when it impacts her, she isn't so high on Communism. What a hypocrite.