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Sicko banned in Cuba for depicting mythical healthcare system.

posted 13 years ago by goodfellas2340
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This movie to me was ridiculous. For one when he took the 9/11 survivors to Cuba they were given the normal healthcare of Cuba. They go to a local Cuban pharmacy and the woman working there gives the 9/11 survivor a pill. The woman said, "Yeah this is it" and proceeds to take the pill. A few problems I had with this scene. One, how would the pharmacist know the woman's condition without a doctors note. And if they were given the same treatment as fellow Cubans you can just go up to the local pharmacist and ask for pills? Also, how would the 9/11 survivor know that that was the proper pill to take?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-cuba-sicko

[–] pjgroen 13 years ago

See second correction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/dec/21/corrections-clarifications

[–] daenku32 13 years ago

They should know that you can't kill a Zombie Lie with a simple correction. It's the night of the living dead with all the right-wing lies that keep going around.

[–] Glass85 13 years ago

And it wasn't pills, it was an inhaler.

[–] hammerbutt 13 years ago

She knew the name of the drug dingus.

[–] silver_dace 12 years ago

plus i think the pharmacist asked her to get a prescription from the doctor so she could sell her the medicine. And i know the drug was only 5 cents but considering most cubans only make 20-30 pesos a month...then 3 pesos for the drug is quite a bit.

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