Oh, and you get free health care too:
I favor a Cuban-style approach. First, we need to abolish political parties and if necessary imprison, exile, or execute politicians who refuse to accept the new order. Then we should severly curtail the traditional civil liberties that we currently enjoy. I’d start with the press and shut down newspapers and television stations that did not support the government. For good measure I’d gradually abolish private ownership of print and broadcast media turning these into propaganda organs of the state. I’m sure we wouldn’t have to execute too many reporters before they fell into line. Maybe establish re-education camps for those who don’t quite get it.
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Another fact lost in the Moore-catalyzed propaganda is that the reason there are so many adequate or even superior doctors and other health-care professionals in Cuba is because the other professions simply do not exist. There is no occupational outlet for the intellectually gifted in Cuba other than medicine (or teaching).
I am an attorney and investment banker. I certainly could have been a physician if I had wanted to be. I didn’t want to be. In Cuba I almost certainly would have to have been one by necessity.
But do you really a health care system staffed by frustrated lawyers and investment bankers?
Add to it that communist governments like to show off their superiority. So, when sick Americans come and are filmed, they are taken in the best hospitals and to the best doctors. Probably the same that government official used.
Whether or not the population gets the same care is far from clear, no matter how much they may claim that everyone is equal.
This is from someone who grew up in the Soviet Union. Some good doctors, some bad doctors (as everywhere), but different clinics for government officials and for the rest. And children getting dental work done without any novocaine as it was only available for extractions and in paid clinics. Also the needles were re-used, and there have never been enough beds in hospitals, so in addition to several people in one room, some beds were placed in the hallways… But I can bet if Moore had come to the Soviet Union, they would’ve found a really good clinic to use for filming.
No thanks, even if you throw in the funky old cars, rum and live music.
“But do you really a health care system staffed by frustrated lawyers and investment bankers?”
Well, I know a few lawyers and investment bankers here in the USA that were frustrated doctors…
People need to understand that Cuban physicians are a major source of capital and revenue source for the Communist regime. One of my colleagues is a Cuban physician (who works essentially as a P.A. here). While a Cuban citizen, he was sent on government medical “missions”, to Africa for example, where the Cuban government received about $70,000 per year and he was paid only about $75 or $80 per MONTH. Your family remained behind in Cuba and you were told that if you ever wanted to see them again, you would not defect. This is slavery pure and simple. It is time that people see Cuba for what it is.
Maybe that answers my question: do Cuban doctors have the freedom to practice elsewhere in the world if they want, or are they as captive as the rest of Cuba.
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