I don't HAVE to denigrate Cuba at all. It is leftwing whackos in this country who insist that Cuba has a superior healthcare system just because they have a government provided healthcare system -who need a big time REALITY CHECK. Have you missed out on all that PRAISE the lefwing whackos have for the Cuban healthcare system they insist we need to imitate or what? I'm not the one who ever suggested Cuba had a superior system in any way. That has been suggested by MANY people and not just here.
Cuba does not have a superior healthcare system, sorry. The fact their average citizen is heavily taxed for a system that provides far better care for their party elite than the people actually funding it isn't "denigrating" Cuba -it is pointing out REALITY. Fidel isn't paying for his healthcare that the average Cuban will never have -the average Cuban is paying for it even though he can NEVER access it. I don't care how many leftwing whackos insist otherwise. The fact that people are not flocking to Cuba for their healthcare when people from a wide variety of other countries DO come here for their healthcare should tell you something. And it isn't about who is footing the bill for the insurance. I can make an appointment with the very same doctors who are treating Bush -although it may take me a while to be seen. But that would only be due to his practice load -not that I am forbidden from being treated by them. But the average Cuban will never be seen by the doctors treating Fidel. It is the system itself that is corrupt and prevents such a thing. So I guess we should imitate them anyway, huh? Even though the only beneficiaries are the party faithful and not those funding it.
And seriously -after all this time, do you really consider Cuba to be a "developing" country? ROFL Just what are they "developing" that didn't exist when Fidel took power? And why haven't they gotten further along with that "superior" communist system than they have I wonder. And just how long will that "developing" take in your opinion before they aren't a "developing" nation anymore? Why is it people are willing to risk their very lives to escape and Americans can just leave if they want out of our system? So far, the average Cuban has much less access to the average level of healthcare accessed by any recipient of Medicaid anywhere in this country -and that will never change under such a regime and system in Cuba.
Maybe somewhere along the line, some of these leftwing extremists will realize that perhaps more countries need to imitate us instead of insisting we need to imitate countries like Cuba -and recognize the reality that among those who do try to imitate us, they actually end up providing far greater good for their own citizens than countries like Cuba, or its former sponsor state the USSR -could ever do under that system. And that isn't even touching on the subject of how such countries handle political dissidents.
they may not have ''superior'' health care, BUT THEY ALL HAVE healthcare, therefore they live longer than americans do, on average.
our SUPERIOR healthcare is for those with money and good jobs providing health care coverage.....45 million people are not getting this ''superior'' healthcare.
SURE we have the best health care that, MONEY CAN BUY in the entire world....
which DOES NOT reflect us taking care of the Least Among Us, as asked of us by Christ......the Least Among us....
People are selfish in general, and as long as things are ok for themselves and their families, they think NOTHING of the people that are the Least Among us....they got the gvt system to WORK for them, via the gvt giving tax breaks to their Employers that cover their health insurance.....
any of us that gets healthcare from our employers is the federal gvt paying for 1/3 of the cost of it via tax credits and breaks given to the businesses that supply the coverage for us....
So many of YOU are just FINE with the gvt and taxes helping YOU with YOUR healthcare, but God Forbid, the gvt does something to help those that have not benefitted from the gvt "system" set up....
YOur healthcare coverage IS SUBSIDIZED BY OUR GVT THROUGH OUR INCOME TAX SYSTEM.
But no one else should be helped with their healthcare...right....the least among us do not DESERVE what we have right, the least among us don't DESERVE IT?
Seems a little hypocritical to me.....
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