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

[Fuzzybigfoot]

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

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Oh.  Whoops.


But we do average only 49th in life expectancy.  Cuba's 53rd.    This info is from the CIA World Fact Book (2010 estimates).  


https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html

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.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html?countryName=Haiti&countryCode=ha&regionCode=ca&rank=18#ha

Not that I would like their health care, but I really think that the whole "free market" health care system is way overrated.  

The fact that a small, impoverished dictatorship can outrank us among even one key health statistic is ridiculous.  It really shows how much thought we put into our physical well being.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

The US's deficiencies being at the level of Cuba doesn't make Cuba great.

Are you referring to my post?  I never said it was.  I was just saying that we wouldn't even have to make comparisons if we used our resources wisely.