great stuff, frances!

great stuff, frances!

I found in him a refusal to subscribe to the Oliver Stone/Michael Moore
school of willful blindness, admitting there were breathtaking elements
to the island while acknowledging the scattering of asterisks and
conjectures surrounding the statistics of the health care system, and
the inability of journalists to paint a full picture.

Which means, of course, that Obamacrats will immediately label Gupta a rightwing teathuglikkkan racist murderer Koch sucker.

Bank on it.

 If you look at life expectancy and infant mortality rates are among the best in the world. In fact the infant mortality rate is lower than in the United States. Critics will say that this is because the abortion rates are higher in Cuba, so you can see how this argument can go back and forth and some of it is hard to prove.

No they don’t, Sanjay: http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/cuba-vs-the-united-states-on-infant-mortality/ they collect their statistics differently, counting more children as stillborn that we count as live births:

This is clearly what is happening in Cuba. In the United States about 1.3 percent of all live births are very low birth weight — less than 1,500 grams. In Cuba, on the other hand, only about 0.4 percent of all births are less than 1,500 grams. This is despite the fact that the United States and Cuba have very similar low birth rates (births where the infant weighs less than 2500g). The United States actually has a much better low birth rate than Cuba if you control for multiple births — i.e. the growing number of multiple births in the UnitedStates due to technological interventions has resulted in a marked increase in the number of births under 2,500 g.
It is odd if both Cuba and the U.S. have similar birth weight distributions that the U.S. has more than 3 times the number of births under 1,500g, unless there is a marked discrepancy in the way that very low birth weight births are recorded. Cuba probably does much the same thing that many other countries do and does not register births under 1000g. In fact, this is precisely what the World Health Organization itself recommends that for official record keeping purposes, only live births of greater than 1,000g should be included.The result is that the statistics make it appear as if Cuba’s infant mortality rate is significantly better than the United States’, but in fact what is really being measured in this difference is that the United States takes far more serious (and expensive) interventions among extremely low birth weight and extremely premature infants than Cuba (or much of the rest of the world for that matter) does.

While Sanjay is visiting that shining Utopia of Communism, a world class example of Healthcare AND Education maybe, if he is really lucky, Castro will allow him to sit in on one of his meeting’s with America’s very own Congressional Black Caucus-in his very own living room no less!  Seriously!!!  But keep Sanjay away from the beaches we don’t want him to see the thousands of Cubans trying to flee to Florida.  They just don’t understand the BENIFITS of Communism!  Or maybe they do!

They don’t call it the “Communist News Network” for nothing. 

Thanks so much for the racist input. We don’t get enough of that around here.

Sometimes you are far more vacuous than my Hoover. This is one such time.

‘No’….we sure dont and never expect anything other than the ‘ignorance’(left/right-black-gray-white)to always shine through!

I concur, we should ALWAYS ask a man who is from a country where the norm is to deficate in the street, how BAD America is and HOW to make it better.

Gupta – a foreigner WHEREEVER he is

I liked this interview and article. Gupta seems to be very level headed about Cuba’s health care system and it’s challenges. Perhaps he’ll quiet the Michael Moore -Oliver Stone nonsense that is so often repeated.

there you go again. More silly “racist” comments. Are you really that stupid or does it run in the family?

Why bother.

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I have always wondered how those – such as Mike Moore – can go to Castro’s island fiefdom and declare their health system as not only wondrous, but some the U.S. should emulate.  There is a willful ignorance that the common people do not have access to the same treatment centers as say the dignataries and tourists.  The women on that island have long had to turn to the black market for basics such as feminine hygiene products.  This is what they want to export to our shores? No thanks, but if you are so enamored by all means take a one-way to Havana.

When you lose an argument Marxists scream RACIST!  It doesn’t work anymore.  Get over it.

If doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results is a definition of insanity, then our policy of trying to get rid of the Castros by blocking access to the island of Cuba, then our policy is insane.  My guess is that, if the USA just said that we are going to treat Cuba like any other country, that if they want to buy US goods and have the money they can go for it, and if they have goods that Americans want to buy, they can sell them, things between the USA and Cuba would soon improve.  Further, allowing US citizens to travel to Cuba and Cuban citizens to travel to the US freely would soon solve all the rest of our problems vis-a-vis
Cuba.  A dictator ship needs enemies to justify itself.  Hard to be enemies if the other side gives you no excuse.

Does “Dr.” Gupta still shit in the street? Or, are there SOME things about America he actually LIKES?

And a sister of the Koch brothers.