Posted on 08/03/2017 4:39:14 AM PDT by SJackson
Democratic Party Leader Claims: “Cuba has better healthcare outcomes than the U.S.”
“The countries like Cuba or Canada or Russia or a lot of places in this world spend half what we spend per capita and they got better health outcomes than we do,” (deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee Rep. Keith Ellison, July 24th)
But why pick on Rep. Ellison? Adulation for the putrid disaster known as Castroite “healthcare” seems indigenous to Democrat Party DNA. To wit:
“Castro brought superb systems of healthcare and education to his people.” (Jimmy Carter, 2002.)
“The United States recognizes the progress that (Castro’s) Cuba has made as a nation, its enormous achievements in education and in health care.” (Pres. Barack Obama March, 2016.)
Now over to the Democrat Party’s public relations subsidiaries:
“One of Cuba's greatest prides is its health care system. (PBS’ Ray Suarez reporting from Havana.)
“Cuba could serve as 'a model for health care reform in the United States' ” (CNN’s Morgan Neil.)
‘Castro has brought great healthcare to his country.” (ABC’s Barbara Walters)
Now regarding what Pres. Obama called Cuba’s “progress,” Websters defines the word “progress” as: “gradual betterment; especially: the progressive development of humankind.”
So let’s see: in 1958 (the year prior to Castro’s revolution) robustly capitalist Cuba had the 13th lowest infant-mortality rate in the world. This put her not only at the top in Latin America but atop most of Western Europe, ahead of France, Belgium, West Germany, Israel, Japan, Austria, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Today all of these countries leave Communist Cuba in the dust, with much lower infant mortality rates.
And even plummeting from 13th (capitalist) to 43th (communist Cuba’s ranking today) Cuba's "impressive" infant mortality rate is kept artificially low by Communist chicanery with statistics and by a truly appalling abortion rate of 0.71 abortions per live birth. This is the hemisphere's highest, by far. Any Cuban pregnancy that even hints at trouble gets "terminated."
A few years ago, Dr. Juan Felipe García, MD, of Jacksonville, Fla., interviewed several recent doctor defectors from Cuba. Based on what he heard, he reported the following:
"The official Cuban infant-mortality figure is a farce. Cuban pediatricians constantly falsify figures for the regime. If an infant dies during its first year, the doctors often report he was older. Otherwise, such lapses could cost him severe penalties and his job."
This might lead a few people to question Cuba's official infant-mortality figures. But such people would not get a Havana bureau for their news agency, much less a visa to film a documentary (Michael Moore, Sicko.)
According to a report by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, more than 75% of “doctors” with Cuban “medical degrees” flunk the exam given by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates for licensing in the U.S. Most Cuba-certified doctors even flunk the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates’ exam for certification as “physician assistants,” making them barely fit even as nurses.
Please, amigos! None of this is meant to disparage these hapless Cuban men and women who were simply cursed by fate to be born under a Stalinist tyranny. And please perish any idea that I’m disparaging U.S. nurses! In fact, I’ve been served by many nurses who –in expertise and diligence—shamed the bona-fide M.D. they worked for!....But hopefully you get my point.
In fact, ninety-nine percent of Cubans have no more experience with hospitals like the one Michael Moore featured in Sicko and CNN's features in its “reports,” than Moore has with a Soloflex or Nordic Track. Most Cubans view these hospitals the way most college boys view Girls Gone Wild videos and husbands view Victoria Secrets Catalogue: "Wow! If only…?!”
Two generations ago, as mentioned above, Cuban doctors were among the most respected on earth—and not by political hacks, pompous frauds and communist agents (i.e. mainstream media) as are Cuban doctors today.
Surely the statement above branding as “Communist agents” the respected health professionals eagerly beckoned and reverentially quoted by the U.S. media strikes many readers as unnecessarily “hyperbolic”-- if not downright “Mc Carthyite,” right?
“Have you no sense of decency, Mr Fontova? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Objection sustained. So let’s have a closer look at this issue: The U.S. media’s veritable “go-to-person” on Cuban healthcare (besides Michael Moore) is Gail Reed. CNN, a major media fan of Gail Reed’s “impartial expertise”, calls her “a Medical Expert.”
Now over at MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell whose eagerly-issued “journalist’ visa by the Communist regime makes it easy for her to often “interview” Gail Reed on location in Havana for NBC cameras, describes her as: “international director of the nonprofit group Medical Education Cooperation.”
During the 1990s Reed also functioned as executive producer for NBC News Havana bureau--a pretty plum position for a communist intelligence apparatchik, no? Not that NBC revealed Gail Reed’s genuine “credentials.”
Because you see, amigos: for the past 36 years Havana resident Gail Reed has been married to an officer of Cuba’s Directorio General de Intelligencia (spy service) named Julian Torres Rizo. This KGB-trained apparatchik recruited Reed back in 1969 when she visited Cuba as a member of the (DGI-created) Venceremos Brigades of “starry-eyed” U.S. college kids. Obama’s future “neighbors” Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, by the way, served as recruiters for these Venceremos Brigades. This was an important function as leaders of the terrorist group Weather Underground.
“Your society must be destroyed!” the KGB-trained Rizo coached his eager hippie recruits in Cuba. “It is now your duty to help destroy your society!” Reed was so enchanted with Stalinist, terror-sponsoring Cuba that she moved there and became a top writer for Cuba’s Communist party press.
Not that any American viewers imbibing her reports on the marvels of Cuba’s healthcare and the wickedness of the U.S. “Blockade” of her adopted country in those “mainstream” media organs might have guessed any of Gail Reed’s background. For such illuminating (to most of us) and infuriating (to the Castro regime and its multitude of U.S.-based agents) disclosures it greatly helps to go here.
As luck would have it, the farce of Cuba’s “healthcare” as spread by Democrats and their Fake News media auxiliaries was the topic of a rollicking presentation at a Young Americas Foundation conference just last week.
Define “health outcome”, muzzie snake.
That’s because they don’t have any fat violent submoronic “teens”.
The Cuban system works so well because of one factor - if people DO get sick, the treatment is swift and effective. Once they get sick, the patients die quickly, so there are no longer lingering stays in the hospital.
Pneumonia is their friend.
Knowing that if you go to the hospital you shall die, the canny Cuban people rely far more on personal health maintenance and home remedies to control or cure common ailments, so the long wait times at the doctor’s office are not a concern, You just never go to the doctor except in trauma situations.
Everybody has a “right” to medical treatment. Except they are frightened at the prospects of ever having to USE it.
The statistics in Cuban Hospitals is really not much better than some clinic out in African bush country. But the statistics are handled much more carefully, and the real situation is kept hidden.
If their health care system is so damned good, why do all the elites in Cuba go to Spain for modern hospital care?
Some years back, someone on DU posted photos of hospitals where the ordinary Cubans go. Filthy, ill equipped, rats and cockroaches. Even the operating rooms were in such a state. The same person pointed out that the much touted hospitals were reserved for party elite and “medical tourists” to obtain hard currency.
She went on to point out that some high end medical equipment is manufactured in Cuba, but an ordinary Cuban would never see it.
She got banned from DU.
If Cuba’s health service is so great why did they bring in a Spanish doctor to heal Castro? The finest of Cuba’s health service almost killed Castro.
Surely he will travel to Cuba for treatment when he gets cancer or has heart disease. Yes?
Serious ?:
How many total knee replacements are done annually in Cuba? Total hip?
Three patients visit the doctor in Cuba. One has terminal cancer and the other two have a splinter in their finger. Two survive! 67% good outcome. /S
Suggest Ellison get his, and his family, medical treatment in Cuba!
I just went to Cuba a month ago. It was a shock. If they have good healthcare, that’s the only thing they have going for them. This is my summary for the trip:
The infrastructure is crumbling around it. It’s as though the revolution was successful, but they had no plan to keep things up afterward. The Mafia did a better job of running Havana, and the people probably had more freedom.
There was no overt display of propaganda, and the military and police presence was minimal. As someone in my office said, if you have a snitch on every street corner, you don’t need a strong presence. We were supposed to have a Cuban band on board the ship that night, but at the last minute, the government cancelled it.
We went on a tour on the first day and got to see a lot of Havana. We did not see any Potemkin Villages. Most of it looked like neighborhoods from the 50s.
There are a lot of old cars there, and they are well maintained. I didn’t care to ride in one. I had done that enough when I was growing up.
The next morning we went on a shopping spree for rum, cigars, and coffee. We had the run of the town. No “guides.” There are no stores as we know them. You find this little open door with a few items inside. We had to buy rum and three different places and bought them out each time. When we checked the rum getting back on the ship, someone remarked as they saw our haul, “No wonder we couldn’t find Havana Club 7 Year Rum.”
The best thing about Havana was the people. They were great! Very few spoke English, or at least they didn’t admit to it. Despite that, they were very friendly and seemed to be happy to see us. That’s the best memory I bring back from my visit.
Would I go back? If I ran out of rum, cigars, and coffee, maybe. Perhaps with the opening up of tourism, they will invest the money in the infrastructure. As my wife said, she hopes they don’t spend the money on statues and monuments to a revolution that has outlived its time.
Part of being a Black Democrat is lying add Black muslim animal Democrat and you see a firestorm of lies spewing out of this swines mouth.
If the Cuban system is so great,why is Ellison still here? We wouldn’t miss him if he left.
Cuban hospitals save money by not putting sheets on the beds, not bothering to clean the patient rooms and in some cases having patients share beds. Yes sir better care than at the Mayo Clinic. Trust me Rep. Ellison wouldn’t go to Cuba to have a hangnail treated, but would seek VIP treatment with his gold plated Congressional health plan at the best medical centers in the US while his constituents struggle to get health care under collapsing Obamacare.
Yeah, sure- like you can trust anything the Cuban government claims...
So, I take it you’ve already visited everything of interest in the United States? < /mild rebuke >
;^)
Doing that as well. Just got back from Arizona. My wife had just recovered from surgery and wanted to take a cruise to somewhere during the 4th of July weekend. There were cruises out of Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Tampa that weekend. We’re closest to Tampa, so we opted for that one. It just happened to be Carnival’s maiden voyage to Cuba. Had they been going to Cozumel, that’s where we would have gone. It was port location more than destination that we selected.
I told Mrs. JimRed I’d take her on a cruise, if they’d let me drive! The USN let me drive when I was 19-20...
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