The wonders of socialized medicine
In this story from Reuters, we find that the Island Worker's Paradise has health care, but alas, even for the Dictator, the treatment is below that which you can get at Stroger Hospital in Cook County. It seems that an operation on Fidel didn't go quite as planned, and now he has a major internal infection that will probably claim his life. Not that I feel sorry for him, mind you. But if you can't even get good care when you are the Dictator, what makes anyone think that socialized health care is a good thing if you are just another patient?
MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro has long prided himself on Cuba's doctors and free public health care system, but that system seems to have let him down after he fell ill in July , U.S.-based doctors said on Tuesday.
Based on a report in Tuesday's edition of Spain's El Pais newspaper, the doctors -- who have no first-hand knowledge of Castro's condition -- said Castro had received questionable or even botched care at the hands of health experts on his communist-ruled island.
"It's not a good story. Too bad they didn't send him to Miami for surgery," said Dr. Charles Gerson, a clinical professor of medicine in the gastroenterology division of New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
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