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| Che the monster. Hero of the Left |
I'd read the Nicholas Kristof article in the New York Times the other day and had wondered about his positive take on healthcare in Cuba. I'd heard some pretty dire stories about Cuban Medicare, pace the usually glowing reports on the Left. I mean, the Left is still in thrall to that horrid mass murdering tyrant, Che Guevara - he does look very sexy - so why would they report reliably about a system run under their beloved socialism. So I'd kind of doubted Kristof. (Not for the first time. In the infamous Sam Harris, Ben Affleck episode on Bill Maher's show, Kristof had disappointedly taken Afflek's mistaken side).
Anyway, here's a report on Cuban healthcare. I must say this Mitsotakis report strikes me as way more likely to be on the money. In short, Cuban health is in a mess. Like the rest of its economy.
By the way, the mention in the article of dual Cuban currencies and ration books takes me back to China in the seventies and eighties. I held dual currencies, I had ration books. It was only after Beijing went all "socialism with Chinese characteristics" - aka capitalism, with a Chinese twist - that things got better. And they got better quickly, which at least ought to be one bit of good news for crappy communist economies like Venezuela and North Korea. If they ditch their leaders and ditch their rotten systems, there's hope for them yet.
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Despite his raging liberalism, I have long been an admirer of Nicholas Kristof. It takes a man of immense courage to do what he did in bringing the terrible truth about Communist China to light for all to see. He has also taken a stand on behalf of young conservatives who suffer discrimination on college campuses, a stand for which he received an enormous amount of hate mail from his lefty readers.
That being said, he screwed up — big time — in his latest column in The New York Times. His essay is dedicated to telling his readers why "Cuba has the Medicare for All that many Americans dream about."
A little background, to explain my dismay.[Read on…]
