The Cuban Health System Michael Moore Never Saw
This from dispatches uncovered by WikiLeaks:
In one Cuban hospital, patients had to bring their own light bulbs. In another, the staff used “a primitive manual vacuum” on a woman who had miscarried. In others, Cuban patients pay bribes to obtain better treatment.
The cable acknowledged that medical institutions reserved for Cuba’s ruling elites and foreigners who pay in hard currencies “are hygienically qualified, and have a wide array of diagnostic equipment with a full complement of laboratories, well-stocked pharmacies, and private patient suites with cable television and bathrooms.”
During a visit to the Calixto Garcia Hospital, which serves only Cubans, the U.S. nurse “was struck by the shabbiness of the facility…and the lack of everything (medical supplies, privacy, professional care staff)…reminiscent of a scene from some of the poorest countries in the world.”
WRONG. Michael Moore knows what the real system looks like. It’s you, the viewer, who never saw it in his tell-it-like-it-isn’t documentary.
What a con artist Moore is. And he makes millions lying to the public.
What you are describing is what Michael Moore saw and refused to film.
Michael Moore’s film (or at least the part of it filmed in Cuba) was a marketing campaign for the hospital that treated the 9-11 workers he brought there. The hospital continues it’s marketing campaign on the web at http://www.havanahospital.com.
This shows how crazy the world is: An American patient can pay a transparent cash price for an operation in this hospital – a more patient-centered experience than he’d have in the U.S.!
However, the profits undoubtedly go to the Castro brothers whose fellow Cuban citizens suffer without access to the most basic health services.
I think I’d rather take my medical tourism to Singapore or Thailand.