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July 12, 2021
Michael Moore Tells Big Fat Lies
Last Friday, commentators on a left-wing radio station were talking about how great government-run healthcare is in Cuba. [Latino Media Collective, 7/9/21 at 20:30 - 23:25] They said it was wonderful Castro nationalized the pharmacies, making medicine available to everyone. They talked about how healthcare goes out to the people with public clinics and a well-designed system that reaches virtually everyone in the island nation. They said Cubans have an enormous amount of trust in government healthcare and even claimed to know people who say Cuban healthcare is better than what they can get in Miami.
But then the weekend brought the news that thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest against the communist regime and how it’s handling healthcare in the COVID pandemic. So here’s my question: If everything the commentators said were true and government healthcare is so great, why are thousands of people in the streets protesting against it in Cuba?
There are reports Cuban hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID cases and the government system is collapsing under the weight, especially in one northern province. Observers report there is no oxygen, no beds, and no basic medicine. Despite the human agony, the communist authorities will not allow humanitarian relief into the country to treat coronavirus patients.
How can all this be when the commentators told us government-run healthcare is wonderful in Cuba? Filmmaker Michael Moore told us that, too, in his 2007 movie ‘Sicko’. What he didn’t tell us was that he only visited and filmed the healthcare facilities for the elites.
The reality for the ordinary Cuban is completely different. There is footage from a hospital for ordinary Cubans in a video on my Anticommunism Action Team website. The video is entitled, “How the Communists Betrayed the Cuban People” and the footage is enough to curl your hair. Basics like antibiotics and mattresses are missing. Friends and relatives must provide nursing care. Then there’s the peeling paint, the holes in the walls, the leaking moldy showers, and the broken toilets with no toilet seats. It’s dirty and It’s disgusting. You would not want to send your loved ones there or have to be there yourself, believe me. In communist countries, it’s common for people to have to bring their own sheets and medicine with them when they go to the hospital, and they have to bribe the doctors for anesthesia before an operation. The truth is not being told about Cuba’s two-tier healthcare system, that’s for sure.
Despite these realities, leftists in America want to move the country further in the direction of government-run healthcare, claiming it will be more equal. Democrats and leftists are demanding the federal government force Medicaid expansion on the remaining states that have refused it despite the government’s latest offer of bigger bribes. The push is on in some states for a government single payer monopoly or a public option government-run insurance company that will eventually drive all private insurers out of business. One of the things the radio commentators insinuated is that it’s very confusing for patients to have choices for their medical services. Have the government do everything and people won’t be confused, anymore. Let me ask you a question: have you ever gone to a different grocery store because your regular store was out of what you needed? Of course you have, but choice is so confusing, right? Somehow, people manage.
Some Americans are out protesting in the streets, too, demanding Medicare-for-All. Or they’re getting their cities and towns to pass resolutions saying how wonderful Medicare-for-All would be. The city council members should watch the video from Cuba I told you about. They should also think twice about giving up the best healthcare system in the world for a government-run system that will be easily politicized and deny you care. In Cuba, healthcare is politicized in favor of the elites. In the U.S., the VA will be diverting resources from ordinary care for veterans to provide surgery and other services for transgenders. Wait times for ordinary care are already increasing, even before the new policy is implemented.
Government-run healthcare is the wrong direction. The thousands of people protesting in the streets in Cuba are reminding us of that fact.
Michael Moore Tells Big Fat Lies
Last Friday, commentators on a left-wing radio station were talking about how great government-run healthcare is in Cuba. [Latino Media Collective, 7/9/21 at 20:30 - 23:25] They said it was wonderful Castro nationalized the pharmacies, making medicine available to everyone. They talked about how healthcare goes out to the people with public clinics and a well-designed system that reaches virtually everyone in the island nation. They said Cubans have an enormous amount of trust in government healthcare and even claimed to know people who say Cuban healthcare is better than what they can get in Miami.
But then the weekend brought the news that thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest against the communist regime and how it’s handling healthcare in the COVID pandemic. So here’s my question: If everything the commentators said were true and government healthcare is so great, why are thousands of people in the streets protesting against it in Cuba?
There are reports Cuban hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID cases and the government system is collapsing under the weight, especially in one northern province. Observers report there is no oxygen, no beds, and no basic medicine. Despite the human agony, the communist authorities will not allow humanitarian relief into the country to treat coronavirus patients.
How can all this be when the commentators told us government-run healthcare is wonderful in Cuba? Filmmaker Michael Moore told us that, too, in his 2007 movie ‘Sicko’. What he didn’t tell us was that he only visited and filmed the healthcare facilities for the elites.
The reality for the ordinary Cuban is completely different. There is footage from a hospital for ordinary Cubans in a video on my Anticommunism Action Team website. The video is entitled, “How the Communists Betrayed the Cuban People” and the footage is enough to curl your hair. Basics like antibiotics and mattresses are missing. Friends and relatives must provide nursing care. Then there’s the peeling paint, the holes in the walls, the leaking moldy showers, and the broken toilets with no toilet seats. It’s dirty and It’s disgusting. You would not want to send your loved ones there or have to be there yourself, believe me. In communist countries, it’s common for people to have to bring their own sheets and medicine with them when they go to the hospital, and they have to bribe the doctors for anesthesia before an operation. The truth is not being told about Cuba’s two-tier healthcare system, that’s for sure.
Despite these realities, leftists in America want to move the country further in the direction of government-run healthcare, claiming it will be more equal. Democrats and leftists are demanding the federal government force Medicaid expansion on the remaining states that have refused it despite the government’s latest offer of bigger bribes. The push is on in some states for a government single payer monopoly or a public option government-run insurance company that will eventually drive all private insurers out of business. One of the things the radio commentators insinuated is that it’s very confusing for patients to have choices for their medical services. Have the government do everything and people won’t be confused, anymore. Let me ask you a question: have you ever gone to a different grocery store because your regular store was out of what you needed? Of course you have, but choice is so confusing, right? Somehow, people manage.
Some Americans are out protesting in the streets, too, demanding Medicare-for-All. Or they’re getting their cities and towns to pass resolutions saying how wonderful Medicare-for-All would be. The city council members should watch the video from Cuba I told you about. They should also think twice about giving up the best healthcare system in the world for a government-run system that will be easily politicized and deny you care. In Cuba, healthcare is politicized in favor of the elites. In the U.S., the VA will be diverting resources from ordinary care for veterans to provide surgery and other services for transgenders. Wait times for ordinary care are already increasing, even before the new policy is implemented.
Government-run healthcare is the wrong direction. The thousands of people protesting in the streets in Cuba are reminding us of that fact.