Schmucks, the lot of them
Sep. 2nd, 2009 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mercy_angel_09I was just watching the news and they couldn't stop raving about how great heath care is in Cuba. How it has one of the best ratios of doctors to patients. How foreigners go there to be cared for. "Look at the pretty, clean clinics! Look at the doctors! Look at how they're all women, too!" It is GLORIOUS and America can learn from this!
To this I say, "Congratulations CNN, you've just been played like a cheap violin."
I would have thought by now that the general public would have figured out that what people see of Cuba is what the government WANTS them to see. I've seen the real Cuba. Nature there is beautiful. C'mon, it's a tropical island, of course it's beautiful. Show me the slums and the clinics there, and then we'll talk about Cuba's "model health care." Actually, they don't have to - I've seen the pictures that my father snapped without anyone knowing. I've seen photos taken by a Swiss journalist who decided to see what real health care in Cuba is about. What he found and then published has made him persona non gratis on the island, and will never be able to go back.
For fuck's sake people - communists are all the same: They show you what they want you to see and not what really is.
(Does anyone here remember the whole Anti-Fascist Protective Rampart incident of the 1960s? Anyone? How about the fact that the USSR was basically Uppervolta with rockets for a very long time?)
Wander down an alley. I promise that what you'll find there is the real Cuba, and not the pretty facade that the government wants you to see.
Of the people who don't have insurance, how many qualify though an employer and actively CHOOSE not to take it? How many qualify for government health care assistance but actively CHOOSE not to receive it? And how many are left who legitimately do not have any insurance or health care assistance. Probably far less that the reported 50 million.
Yes, health care is expensive. And here's the problem as I see it: doctors run a battery of expensive tests trying to find a proper diagnosis. Doctors also have to pay outrageous malpractice insurance.
Hmmm, if we stopped being so litigation happy we'd probably get more people who'd go into the medical field and the cost of health care would probably drop. Wow, health care crisis adverted (well, in the most basic and simplest terms). I don't want to have to pay for some schmuck who decides that he's unhappy with a doctor for some puerile reason and wants some quick cash. Neither does anyone else, I'm sure.
I'm all for health care reform, because regardless people need it - but we have to be smart about. And following Cuba's example isn't.
To this I say, "Congratulations CNN, you've just been played like a cheap violin."
I would have thought by now that the general public would have figured out that what people see of Cuba is what the government WANTS them to see. I've seen the real Cuba. Nature there is beautiful. C'mon, it's a tropical island, of course it's beautiful. Show me the slums and the clinics there, and then we'll talk about Cuba's "model health care." Actually, they don't have to - I've seen the pictures that my father snapped without anyone knowing. I've seen photos taken by a Swiss journalist who decided to see what real health care in Cuba is about. What he found and then published has made him persona non gratis on the island, and will never be able to go back.
For fuck's sake people - communists are all the same: They show you what they want you to see and not what really is.
(Does anyone here remember the whole Anti-Fascist Protective Rampart incident of the 1960s? Anyone? How about the fact that the USSR was basically Uppervolta with rockets for a very long time?)
Wander down an alley. I promise that what you'll find there is the real Cuba, and not the pretty facade that the government wants you to see.
Of the people who don't have insurance, how many qualify though an employer and actively CHOOSE not to take it? How many qualify for government health care assistance but actively CHOOSE not to receive it? And how many are left who legitimately do not have any insurance or health care assistance. Probably far less that the reported 50 million.
Yes, health care is expensive. And here's the problem as I see it: doctors run a battery of expensive tests trying to find a proper diagnosis. Doctors also have to pay outrageous malpractice insurance.
Hmmm, if we stopped being so litigation happy we'd probably get more people who'd go into the medical field and the cost of health care would probably drop. Wow, health care crisis adverted (well, in the most basic and simplest terms). I don't want to have to pay for some schmuck who decides that he's unhappy with a doctor for some puerile reason and wants some quick cash. Neither does anyone else, I'm sure.
I'm all for health care reform, because regardless people need it - but we have to be smart about. And following Cuba's example isn't.
