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Re: Important PBS series in MarchFrom: Ellerd Family (ellerd@stx.rr.com)Tue Jan 29 08:56:46 2008
Here is an article from Reuters that shows which hospital they went to...I have a sneaking suspicion it is not the one the average Cuban is allowed to use. And there is that misleading little "free" term again. Free is never free...someone always pays for it. I would be interested to learn how Cuba funds that hospital...and in the interest of healthcare workers, how much they are paid to provide those services. Would American healthcare staff work for Cuban wages? That's why I am always suspicious of documentaries...they never ask all the questions that are pertinent. As balanced as this was for Michael Moore, it is still totally skewed. The rest of the article is at that link for perusal. http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1936307620070719?feedType== RSS&rpc"&sp=true By Anthony Boadle HAVANA (Reuters) - 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. The main difference with their treatment in the United States: there was no bill. "We can't say we did miracles in the few days they were here. What we did was give them the highest quality treatment. It was totally free," said Dr. Nelson Gomez, medical director of the Hermanos Almejeiras Hospital. Moore used Cuba to argue that other countries are providing better health care to its citizens than the United States with far fewer resources, putting the blame on profit-driven U.S. pharmaceutical and medical insurance industries. Communist Cuba's universal free health system has achieved low child mortality and high longevity rates on a par with rich nations since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. 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.
> ----- Original Message ----- I could not find the specific clinic/hospital that Roger Moore and his folks went to in Cuba, but I did find this bit in the NY Times. Apparently it wasn't so much which hospital they went to, but the difference in the societies. We in the USA are just too sedentary in our life-styles, among other things. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/weekinreview/27depalma.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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