Reuters Smacks SiCKO
You know when you’ve made a bad documentary when liberal Reuters can’t support you:
Three New York rescue workers injured in the September 11 attacks got the best treatment Cuba can offer in Michael Moore’s film critique of U.S. health care, the Cuban doctors who attended them said this week.
The 9/11 responders spent 10 days on the 19th floor of Cuba’s flagship hospital with a view of the Caribbean sea, a sharp contrast to many Cuban hospitals that are crumbling, badly lit, and which lack equipment and medicines. . . .
But the hospital where SiCKO’s patients were treated is an exception in Cuba, where patients of many other hospitals complain they have to take their own sheets and food.
Yeah, Cuba’s health care system is sooooooo much better than ours.
Speaking of Big Government Healthcare, in the UK a woman dies waiting for brain scans
I thought the film very clearly showed that the US is ranked #37 and Cuba #39 in the WHO health care rankings. As is pointed out by the article, many of the hospitals are in a complete state of disrepair, but isn’t it amazing that Cuba is ranked only two spots below the US? How can that be? Well, for exactly the reason that Moore highlights, they offer free, universal health care with very, very inexpensive drugs.