THE CUBAN HEALTH CARE FRAUD

Cuban health care.  The envy of the world.  How we all wish the United States had such wonderful health care, right?

In that connection, here are a number of quotes found in the beginning of Humberto Fontova’s latest article for frontpagemag.com:

“The countries like Cuba or Canada or Russia or a lot of places in this world spend half what we spend per capita and they got better health outcomes than we do,” (deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee Rep. Keith Ellison, July 24^th)

“Castro brought superb systems of healthcare and education to his people.” (Jimmy Carter, 2002.)

“The United States recognizes the progress that (Castro’s) Cuba has made as a nation, its enormous achievements in education and in health care.” (Pres. Barack Obama March, 2016.)

Now over to the Democrat Party’s public relations subsidiaries:

 “One of Cuba’s greatest prides is its health care system. (PBS’ Ray Suarez reporting from Havana.)

“Cuba could serve as ‘a model for health care reform in the United States’ ” (CNN’s Morgan Neil.)

‘Castro has brought great healthcare to his country.” (ABC’s Barbara Walters)

Pretty impressive, no?

Uh….no.  Because there is massive evidence to show that it is a hot steamy pile of what a bull leaves in the meadow after dinner.

Having shown you those quotes, let me give you a few of the many key excerpts from Mr. Fontova’s article:

So let’s see: in 1958 (the year prior to Castro’s revolution) robustly capitalist Cuba had the 13^thlowest infant-mortality rate in the world. This put her not only at the top in Latin America but atop most of Western Europe, ahead of France, Belgium, West Germany, Israel, Japan, Austria, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Today all of these countries leave Communist Cuba in the dust, with much lower infant mortality rates.

And even plummeting from 13th (capitalist) to 43th (communist Cuba’s ranking today) Cuba’s “impressive” infant mortality rate is kept artificially low by Communist chicanery with statistics and by a truly appalling abortion rate of 0.71 abortions per live birth. This is the hemisphere’s highest, by far. Any Cuban pregnancy that even hints at trouble gets “terminated.”

According to a report by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, more than 75% of “doctors” with Cuban “medical degrees” flunk the exam given by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates for licensing in the U.S. Most Cuba-certified doctors even flunk the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates’ exam for certification as “physician assistants,” making them barely fit even as nurses.

In fact, ninety-nine percent of Cubans have no more experience with hospitals like the one Michael Moore featured in Sicko and CNN’s features in its “reports,” than Moore has with a Soloflex or Nordic Track. Most Cubans view these hospitals the way most college boys view Girls Gone Wild videos and husbands view Victoria Secrets Catalogue: “Wow! If only…?!”

Two generations ago, as mentioned above, Cuban doctors were among the most respected on earth—and not by political hacks, pompous frauds and communist agents (i.e. mainstream media) as are Cuban doctors today.

There is a lot more in Mr. Fontova’s piece, which I strongly urge you to read in its entirty.

It should be noted that Humberto Fontova, whose family fled Cuba when he was a small child, and two family members were imprisoned by Castro (one died in prison), is a hardline conservative.  And many of the sources he uses are conservative sources.

But a) that does not make either his sources or his conclusions incorrect, and b) in any event, why would we be any less accepting of Mr. Fontova’s conclusions than of, say, Michael Moore’s, who put together a “documentary” based on being given the royal treatment by fidel castro and access to a few “showcase” hospitals which castro kept clean and modern to impress left wingers like Moore?

Want more than Mr. Fontova’s point of view?  OK.

How about this undercover video of the conditions at a hospital in Santiago? Or this report by discoverthenetworks.org? Or this photo gallery, with truly dispiritiung commentary, put together, years ago, by the Washington Post?

Take all this into account, and it is hard not to conclude that the quality of Cuban “health care” is largely a myth – one brought to us by the left, and avidly sold to us by a media which have spent many years trying to find the good part of Cuba’s communist revolution…whether it exists or not.

And for anyone who think I’m being too harsh, or too negative:  explain those rickety rafts, filled with people willing to die in an effort to escape communist Cuba, have been coming here for over half a century.  I’ll wait.