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Then there is the real Cuban system, the one that ordinary people must use--and it is wretched. Testimony and documentation on the subject are vast. Hospitals and clinics are crumbling. Conditions are so unsanitary, patients may be better off at home, whatever home is. If they do have to go to the hospital, they must bring their own bedsheets, soap, towels, food, light bulbs--even toilet paper. And basic medications are scarce. In Sicko, even sophisticated medications are plentiful and cheap. In the real Cuba, finding an aspirin can be a chore. And an antibiotic will fetch a fortune on the black market.
A nurse spoke to Isabel Vincent of Canada's National Post. "We have nothing," said the nurse. "I haven't seen aspirin in a Cuban store here for more than a year. If you have any pills in your purse, I'll take them. Even if they have passed their expiry date."
The equipment that doctors have to work with is either antiquated or nonexistent. Doctors have been known to reuse latex gloves--there is no choice. When they travel to the island, on errands of mercy, American doctors make sure to take as much equipment and as many supplies as they can carry. One told the Associated Press, "The [Cuban] doctors are pretty well trained, but they have nothing to work with. It's like operating with knives and spoons."
And doctors are not necessarily privileged citizens in Cuba. A doctor in exile told the Miami Herald that, in 2003, he earned what most doctors did: 575 pesos a month, or about 25 dollars. He had to sell pork out of his home to get by. And the chief of medical services for the whole of the Cuban military had to rent out his car as a taxi on weekends. "Everyone tries to survive," he explained. (Of course, you can call a Cuban with a car privileged, whatever he does with it.)
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Great health care!
 
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so ..if cuba is fabulous and castro is a hero and a person feels that communism is their political persuation and the health care in cuba is superb and the yanks are dumb ...why not live there instead of in america...just wondering???
 
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Boomer said:
Why would you want to come to such a horrible place?
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The US is a beautiful country. Unfortunately the people that run the country are a joke. Trust me. If I could leave and go back to Australia, I would in a heartbeat. But I entered into a relationship with an American, and leaving her would also mean leaving my son. Hell will freeze over before I leave my son.
 
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debbie t said:
so ..if cuba is fabulous and castro is a hero and a person feels that communism is their political persuation and the health care in cuba is superb and the yanks are dumb ...why not live there instead of in america...just wondering???
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I don't know. Cuba is such a paradise that the coast guard is constantly pulling cubans out of the water that jump on boats, pieces of wood or anything that floats to get to florida.
 
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Pudding Time said:
The US is a beautiful country. Unfortunately the people that run the country are a joke. Trust me. If I could leave and go back to Australia, I would in a heartbeat. But I entered into a relationship with an American, and leaving her would also mean leaving my son. Hell will freeze over before I leave my son.
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Aye, I can admit the country isnt ran the best. I cant say I support everything Bush has done. But I can say the American people are fucking awesome.
 
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Aye, I can admit the country isnt ran the best. I cant say I support everything Bush has done. But I can say the American people are fucking awesome.
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Yeah there are plenty of great Americans.. unfortunately, there are many idiots too. It comes with the high population.
 
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Aye, I can admit the country isnt ran the best. I cant say I support everything Bush has done. But I can say the American people are fucking awesome.
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don't forget to add: depending on where you live. Because, around here, people are pretentious, pompous asswipes.
 
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