What is Cuba's Healthcare? Lies! m/r
A Lesson on Cuba’s Healthcare for Bill de Blasio | FrontPage Magazine
By Humberto Fontova On October 14, 2013
“I have a huge critique of the current government there [in Cuba] because it’s undemocratic,” snapped de Bill de Blasio to a Cuban-American radio interviewer two weeks ago. “I also think it’s well known that there’s some good things that happened — for example, in health care.”Does it occur to people nowadays that Stalinist regimes might lie? For a guy who presumes to run New York Bill de Blasio sure seems bereft of one of the natives’ most celebrated attributes: their “street smarts.”
Who told de Blasio that Castro’s totalitarian fiefdom has good healthcare? Maybe he saw it on CNN?
Indeed, a CNN “Special Report” on Cuba’s healthcare gushed about the island nation’s “impressive health statistics.” The show featured clips from Michael Moore’s Sicko as CNN’s Morgan Neill, on location in a Potemkin Havana hospital, reported live. “Cuba’s infant mortality rates are the lowest in the hemisphere,” he recited from the regime-issued talking points, “in line with those of Canada! Cuba can boast about health care, a system that leads the way in Latin America.”
Besides plugging Moore’s Sicko, CNN’s “Special Report” also featured “medical expert” Gail Reed, introduced on screen as “someone who’s lived and worked in Cuba for decades.” “They [the Cubans] concentrate on prevention,” she explained to CNN viewers. “When I first came to Cuba in the ’70s, I was very impressed with their efforts in building a new kind of society,” Reed explained.
Most of Reed’s companions of the time were also impressed. Bill Ayres’ wife Bernadine Dohrn for instance. Gail Reed, you see, visited Cuba as a member of the Venceremos Brigades, the starry-eyed college kids who visited ostensibly to cut sugar cane and help “build Cuban Socialism,” a volunteer Peace Corps of sorts. Or so we were led to believe.
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