Michael Moore's "Sicko" - banned in Cuba for exaggerating healthcare quality.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Huh, I'd think Cuba would like exaggerating there healthcare quality??

Not internally.  The last thing they want is for Cubans to realize other Cubans are getting better treatment than they are.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Clearly this is America's fault. (somehow)

If America would just have single-payer, Michael Moore wouldn't have had to falsely romanticize Cuban care.

True, he could have falsely romanticized American care instead.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

At least it was more factual than a movie I was shown in U.S. History back when I was in high school: Gone With The Wind.  As you might expect, the teacher was also an assistant football coach.  (Note: I had some teacher/coaches who were good teachers, but this one fit the stereotype.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

LOL    



The WHO ranks Cuba's health care system as the 39th best/least horrible healthcare system, and the US is at 37th.  Not exactly a stunning mandate for insurance industries.


http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

A ten year old list, compiled using 1997 data that in the case of Cuba was of questionable accuracy even then.  Even if it was accurate then, it's so old as to be worthless.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Infant mortality rates in the US are actually worse than Cuba.  This year it's estimated that 6.14 infants out of 1000 will die within a year of exiting the womb.  In Cuba, it's 5.72.

Part of that is due to higher abortion and stillbirth rates in Cuba for fetuses with marginal chances of survival outside the womb.  What in the United States goes in the books as a premature birth often leading to an infant death rarely gets counted as a birth in Cuba.