Posted on 02/04/2014 4:45:09 PM PST by jazusamo
Sympathizer: Tom Harkin, or "Comrade Harkin" to some, says Cuba's health care system is "remarkable." Maybe a better name for Iowa's senior senator, would be "Useful Idiot," a term the USSR used for gullible leftists in the West.
Harkin, a Democrat, recently spent a week in Cuba, apparently taking in all that the island prison has to offer. On his return, he told reporters that Cuba is a "poor country" — did he think they didn't know this? — but gushed that "they have a lower child mortality rate than ours."
"Their life expectancy is now greater than ours," he said. "It's interesting — their public health system is quite remarkable."
Yes, right, because Cuba would never fudge its data to make itself look good. Communist dictatorships don't traffic in propaganda. It's just not in their DNA.
The National Journal reported that "Harkin, who made a 186-mile trek over the course of three days, also cited low infection rates in Cuban hospitals and the country's success in reducing smoking among citizens through public health campaigns."
Did it occur to the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — who made the visit, according to the National Journal, "to check out how other countries are doing when it comes to public health" — that maybe he was given the VIP tour of Potemkin clinics and kept away from the wretched facilities that regular Cubans have to endure? Apparently not. Let's take Harkin's points one at a time.
First, anyone who trusts Cuba's official government data should not shop for bridges.
In 2011, the United Nations Development Program placed the country in a category reserved for those whose data are not reliable, putting Cuba in a group that includes Iraq, Somalia and North Korea.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
As Forrest Gump’s mama used to say: “Stupid is as stupid does!”
THIS IS THE FAMOUS ‘GREAT AND FREE HEALTHCARE’ THAT REGULAR CUBANS RECEIVE
http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm
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He has decided not to run for reelection so he feels he can show his true colors, now.
Is this the same ‘remarkable’ health care system from which Fidel Castro fled to Spain for HIS medical treatment?
I’m surprised he didn’t reflect on the many fighter jet missions he flew over Cuba back in the day...
Cuba’s healthcare worked out well for Hugo Chavez, at least for the free world.
“Their life expectancy is now greater than ours,” he said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction
Harkin is a Moron!
Yeah, I’ll bet that instilled confidence in Cuban patients and docs.
GREAT POST P/O45
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I THINK HARKIN WAY BACK WHEN.... WENT TO MEET WITH THE SANDINISTAS IN NICARAGUA WITH KERRY ....AS WELL...
CHECK THIS OUT
http://patdollard.com/2013/06/john-kerry-fondly-reminisces-about-time-he-aided-communist-guerrillas/
This article makes good points on the reliability of data from Cuba, but there is another point that conservatives should be aware of when confronting libs with the old “U.S. healthcare is worse than...”
First longevity comparisions - which is the usual data point - are useless to measure healthcare. For one thing, the U.S. leads in death by auto accident - not a good measure of healthcare. Second, early death due to drugs, obesity is also not a good measure of healthcare.
Second, infant mortality is computed quite differently in different countries. In many, an infant is not considered in mortality if it does not make it past 2 weeks or X number of days. In the U.S. we have premies that we save and many don’t make it. They’re counted as infant mortality when in other countries they would not.
And, of course, one infant mortality greatly reduces the longevity average.
The most accurate measure of quality of healthcare is rates of recovery and cure.. things that healthcare actually influences. Here the U.S. is very high.
Dems have no skepticism about a Communist dictatorship claims. huh.
History repeats itself. The NY Times sent a reporter to Stalin’s Russia, and he came back saying it was awesome.
Of course, he did not move there, nor did more than half a dozen believers.
He is also a lying Viet Nam Vet wannabe. So I'm sure we can take his word for the wonders of medicine in Cuber.
He and Michael Moore
You missed the BIG one ... Obesity.
Our welfare poor are so well fed they are dying early from obesity related illnesses.
I'd suggest the the Eastern 2/3's of Iowa voters are Commies.
"Their life expectancy is now greater than ours," he said. "It's interesting — their public health system is quite remarkable."
Oh, my. Hailing from a Democratic [sic] Party that deals in wall-to-wall lies and perpetual deceit, does he not suspect Cuban propaganda to be faked from start-to-finish? (Alternatively, might he be going along with the "gags"?)
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