IIRC most people left Cuba in the 1960's after Castro came to power, then in 1970's and 80's with the Mariel Boatlift. So this was well before health care owul have been an issue in Cuba or the United States- it was cheap in both places back then.
I don't think Moore is arguing that Cuba is overall better than the US, in fact I think Cuba's troubles are a key to the ironic point he makes- Cuba is a 3rd-world developing country that's been dyufunctional for decades, and yet even Cuba is better able to provide for its citizens health care than the United States, which is supposedly a rich First-World nation. Basically it's underlining how embarrassing a failure the USA has been on such a basic issue, to be outdone even by Cuba on such a basic policy. This is even before we consider countries like Korea, France, the Nordics and what-not that are First-World and with far better systems, and nobody goes broke due to medical bills.
The costs of US healthcare and health insurance company exploitation are so severe- like a protection racket with executives pocketing multimillion dollar salaries while contributing far less than eg. a cop, firefighter or teacher- that Americans don't want to start businesses or go out on their own, since health insurance would be so expensive. Also the health insurance problem makes recessions even worse for the US economy, since if people lose their health care from work, their premiums go way up when they don't have the income to provide for it. This is one of the all-time stupidest policies a country has ever come up with for something like this, basically a way to gut a consumer economy. The fact that it's the United States that's done this, just goes to show how much of a total failure our political system has become, that it's failing to fix it.
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Mr_Beale
9 years ago
I don't think Moore is arguing that Cuba is overall better than the US, in fact I think Cuba's troubles are a key to the ironic point he makes- Cuba is a 3rd-world developing country that's been dyufunctional for decades, and yet even Cuba is better able to provide for its citizens health care than the United States, which is supposedly a rich First-World nation. Basically it's underlining how embarrassing a failure the USA has been on such a basic issue, to be outdone even by Cuba on such a basic policy. This is even before we consider countries like Korea, France, the Nordics and what-not that are First-World and with far better systems, and nobody goes broke due to medical bills.
Exactly.
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