😹🤣😂 Hilarious!!!

Great joke! I'm going to use that.

Loved it, but it is very true, and if you've ever visited Cuba, you know it's true. The Cuban people are so open and friendly, they deserve a hell of a lot better than they're getting.

American Kulak Why are you effing lying? You don't know anyone in Cuba. This story is laughably lopsided.

@@mikeoveli1028 tu tienes familia en Cuba?

Noticed that too, seems fitting

Right? Anyone with a wit of knowledge knows that Michael Moore is obviously paid to create leftist/progressive propaganda.

Clearly that shot was not selected at random..An easter egg if you will.

Yeah, I saw that…

Pope Pius XI had no problem having friendly ties with Mussolini.... Very friendly ties..

You like America 1 for the rich and 1 for the poor. So is the video supposed to make us not want healthcare in the US? You mean the statement USA is the best country in the world isn't true. Because why can't the greatest country in the world offer its tax paying citizens healthcare?

@@magoo9279 .....I'm Canadian

@@magoo9279 so I assume you are going to Cuba for your health care

Actually, that's not true at all. If you get sick in Cuba, they treat you the same.

@@gaildrake5940 Cubans live longer than Americans. I just did my own research. Look it up.

While there’s little correlation between physician pay and the quality of care, there IS a correlation between physician pay and people’s willingness to go into the industry. When you’re paying people who work in arguably the most stressful industry to work in (medicine) barely enough to pay their heating bill, it should be no surprise that people leave and no one else wants to do the job.

@@cbl6520 proof for that first statement? Doesn't make sense with private companies willing to pay higher wages for better doctors

@@cbl6520 if the pay is low, the most qualified, skilled, ambitious and educated wi not go into the field. Pay does affect quality of care.

@@zulubeatsprince Got any peer reviewed data? Because I can guarantee it doesn’t exist. The only proof of low pay effecting physicians work ethic, is that it pushes them to flock for greener pastures in countries that actually pay them decently, like Germany, the US, Canada and Australia.

@@cbl6520 peer reviewed data? It doesn’t take scientist to explain that if you’re getting paid less than a cab driver you’re probably not getting the best workers

I was gonna comment exactly that.

State sponsored doctor prostitution!?!?!?

Un-freaking-believable.

That is absolutely correct, ConradoLaCerda! That is “modern slavery”; esclavitud moderna. Abajo la dictadura. Socialism, Communism sucks. 🤮

Of course! This all rings true as a Cuban exile friend confirms here in the U.S. But American commie zombies happily slurp all the vomit Cuban propaganda feeds them.

Some of the people who push this propaganda are just useful idiots who mean well. Michael Moore is not. I'm convinced he's just an evil person.

He's a giant in his own mind but he's really a mental illness.

he knew what was going on all time if not he is dumber than he looks

M.More started, to talk truth a few years ago, but he stops, and went all the way left???, I think it's LIFE or DEATH, so a person has to choose.

no can do.. no whale clinics

I think Moore would have no problem losing that excess weight, if he were to check himself into one of the clinics the regime doesn't show the outside world. He's one of the few for whom the experience might do some good.

Stop listening to Michael. Koch brothers are much more credible: Reason Foundation is the propaganda offshoot of Koch brothers: As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Reason Foundation is supported by donations and sale of its publications. According to 2012 disclosures, its largest donors were the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation ($1,522,212) and the Sarah Scaife Foundation ($2,016,000).

😂😂😂😂

@@Christmas-dg5xc So you have been starving whole nation for 60 years with you sanctions and now make fun of them? Are you from KKK ? Try telling that joke in your church, let people know who you really are.

@@iam8401 I was actually focusing on and making fun of the Moore's girth and the regime's ineptitude - as a counter to "see, everyone there is in perfect health, because it's all free and accessible, but you're right, I was totally blind to that, and will revise it. But why support Moore on this? The evidence seems to be it's not the sanctions doing it. What did you think about its "volunteer" "medical ambassadors" basically having been conscripted by Castro to make him money?

Reminds me of how our politicians here in the UK always refer to our nationalised healthcare (the NHS) as the ‘envy of the world’. I’ve always replied; “That must be why the queues are so long.”

The US has awesome healthcare, since its people willing to travel anythere in world for any serious medical procedure. How much your wife paid for each of your child birth bcz your insurance can't afford it? FYI, It is free in Cuba... It has been free for million of years

@@iam8401 That does not happen very often and when it does it's only very wealthy people who do it. And even if it did, they would have to pay for it with cash. No country is going to allow foreigners to come into the country, get medical care paid for by the taxpayers of that country and then leave. Insurance pays for exactly the coverage that you get. It's not free in Cuba at all. You pay for it with taxes and reduced quality healthcare.

@@bryanboone7363 Of course its been paid with taxes everythere, the US included. The difference is that Cuba also pays it from the profits its healthcare generates oversees while in the US this is never the case. You always pay for it, even then your ER pays his portion. Not sure about taxes in Cuba, but in USSR they were 8% max. Update: As of 2015: There is no corporate tax in Cuba. There is no value added tax in Cuba.

Great answer Brian Boone. It couldn’t get any better than this. How sad! They try to sell you this “perfect, beautiful country with the best healthcare, greatest beaches, etc. 💩.

Yes, there is much more to the story, to all the commenters, do you really think, that Cuba under an embargo for decades, lifted by Obama, reinstated by Trump, really can afford to pay more to their medical staff, and refuses to do so?. Lets look at the positives, free healthcare, what there is of it, [while in the USA ,God forbid if one should get sick ] 99% literacy rate, free medical education. While the USA spends billions destabilizing other countries yearly. Other countries have tried to trade with Cuba over the years, and have suffered for it

You judging it from your perspective, he does it from your patients. Cuban healthcare is the same as in China. You guys fail miserably during COVID era, while Chinese and Cuban doctors and nurses cared of much bigger population of people much better.

@@iam8401 That's right, also they forget that Cuba has been under an embargo , which was lifted y Obama, and reinstated by Trump, for decades. Yet still could afford to give free healthcare, free medical education, and has 99% literacy rate. The USA spends billions yearly destabilizing other countries, and refuses to use some of that wealth to provide free healthcare for it's people, A woman in NY was pushed out of a hospital, on the sidewalk in a wheelchair, although she was still sick, because her health insurance ran out. Without life the rest does not matter

There was more to that story as there is more to this story. The fact that "Reason" chose to air only this perspective is very interesting.

Always be suspect of a presenter that tells you exactly what you want to hear. There's always much more to a story than any political posture movie presents. Consider also how serious a man that has the obvious physical self abuse of Michael Moore and Harvey Weinstein, suddenly interested in health care.

Why didn't he expose the effects of the 6 decades of US sanctions on Cuba?

@@web-angel he did you ciberclaria. You just didn't watch the video, as usual.

@@web-angel too inconveniant. dont worry too much about cubas exile drug dealers and mafia wannabes in america

Better yet why not a documentary on all the gay men who were imprison and tortured under the Castro regime or if they were “ lucky “ thrown on a boat and dropped off in a refugee camp in Miami ?? Did your Mom have any kids who lived ??

@@Lunchladydoyle I'm sure they can documentary can be done right after they do one on the hundreds of people who are being arrested, tortured and murdered by the US all over the world. Did #your mom have any kids who lived?

This is called capitalism. Have you run your business like a charity, or take cut from each paycheck of your employees? Zero sum game.

@@iam8401 Learn basic economics

Capitalism is a trade of goods and services. I provide labor and material and trade it for money. (Sweet sweet profit).

@@jimwerther Labor produces more than the cost to reproduce it for another pay period that is the secret to capital accumulation. This is why the bosses seek to get us to work the longest hours at the lowest wages and at the fastest rate.

@@kimobrien. Your comment makes clear your lack of education in both ELA and economics.

Had the same thought, but compared to Brazil instead of India

Don't forget that most Indians live below poverty line which lower than in Cuba. Without any sanctions.

@@iam8401 yea, Cuba is a second world country. Regarding India's poverty, the people below the National poverty line are an extremely small minority (usually tribal people and those living in Islands). Now their place with accordance to the international poverty line is another story

@@jeanniemaycrawford4466 Any country not printing world currency is the second world country, India, Russia included. Two-thirds of people in India live in poverty: 68.8% of the Indian population lives on less than $2 a day. Over 30% even have less than $1.25 per day available - they are considered extremely poor. This makes the Indian subcontinent one of the poorest countries in the world; women and children, the weakest members of Indian society, suffer most.

@@iam8401 yea, I don't know about that, I think you're referring to the 2007 GHi study, the current government has drastically reformed food access, Indian bureau of health has stats that show the amount of "hungry" people are almost non existent. There are plenty of programs for feeding children, mothers and young girls. I'm not well read up on them but you can find a video on KZfaq. Recently the IMF has come out and said that India has eliminated extreme poverty. Regarding first and second world, I don't think you understand how that works. Wikipedia can explain it to you

Exporting doctors is very profitable business. Given that doctors get their education free, plus traveling expenses covered. Pentagon does the same to its soldiers and officers.

Actually, the Venezuelan physicians have been migrating to other regions for a long time (Europe and USA, mainly); Chavez started to execute very insidious campaigns against already established sectors like the healthcare system at the very beginning of his legal mandates, he imported many Cuban "physicians" - which they aren't to begin with; they were brought to the country in hordes and set throughout the Venezuelan territory, they implemented an "Obamacare" called "barrio adentro" to supposedly help the slum communities, they didn't, they just promoted Cuban health care propaganda, the people from the slums continued attending to the higher quality public hospitals that were already overflowing with people from all over the country.

This makes no sense. Why'd people be flooding to a country that's being crippled by decades of US sanctions? The fact that they're able to export doctors is actually admirable. It's a pity these doctors decided to give their talents to the very country that is strangling their homeland.

@@web-angel Lady, I'm Venezuelan, it's all a lie... the only thing they do is to provide slave labor and anything going to Cuba goes there either for pleasure: prostitution is rampant there either male or female; or to be trained, e.i. Iranians, Chinese, Russians, etc... slaves and oppress people either way as well.

I'm from the Caribbean, have been to Cuba, know people who live in Cuba, know doctors and dentists who've been trained in Cuba, know people who've been treated in Cuba and know Cuban doctors who are working on my country. I know it's DEFINITELY not all a lie, as you put it. This piece only tells one side of the story and that's too bad.

The magnitude of their culpability is shameful, yet ... Not 10% of pravda's audience will see these facts laid bare.

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Agree 100%

After I watch this I will return with a review. First of all I suspect that this is another BS propaganda outlet of some group of American oligarchs trying to take away the ability of any poor people to ever get health care. These people want your health to be controlled by your work. If you have a crappy job you will get crappy health care. These people want to bring back the surf system. If you are born into a job you will not be allowed to move. Your parents job will be your job These people want to suck the life out of everything. One thing comes from that system. Look to France 1789 for the answer.

@@trumanhw The real question is, is this fact or fiction?

Wow 😯… I believe you man!! Because unfortunately, I am from there. 😞

The US is the enemy of many people.

@@web-angel The US government , yes. But not the majority of the people. But they will pay for the government sins if they don't get off their collective asses and do something about them.

Preach! Thats right!

Yes but some enemies are far worst than others but in principle all government is an enemy to its citizens

That was from their program democracy now with Amy what's her name she is such a shill really pisses me off that people take her seriously.

Getting some _No War in Ba Sing Se_ vibes from that one.

@@DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist We've always been at war with East Asia

National propaganda radio

@@fvang4751 National Petroleum Radio.

What do you think is the reason for that?

@@web-angel communism

@@jeffarchibald3837 American imperialism.

Did you ever hear about the embargo?

me when i do no research@@jeffarchibald3837

I know people who've had a very different experience. They were actually treated for their illnesses and didn't go bankrupt as a result.

@@web-angel Lols I bet you have never even stepped foot in the country, let alone actually went to the public Hospital in Havana... Im glad you know people.

When I wanted to spend a winter in Cuba my dictator government threatened a fine and imprisonment of up to one year in I did. The u.s.a. has sucked that way for decades.

@@HebrewHammerArmsCo 😂 how much are you willing to bet?

@@web-angel send me a scree shot of what you have in your ready cash bank account... I will happily match that.. Put your money where your mouth is.

COVID deaths. Cuba: 9K USA: 988K (100+ times more) Population: Cuba: 12 million USA: 332 million(30 times more). Meaning the US healthcare system 3 times worse then Cuban.

@@iam8401 Americans treat their bodies like garbage. It’s a miracle deaths weren’t far worse in the US. The US healthcare system deserves harsh criticism but has some merits. It’s an over-regulated quasi-fascistic model but it creates a lot innovations that get exported elsewhere. It could be so much better if it was capitalistic. A majority of healthcare dollars in America are spent by the government. The government rigs insurance markets and prevents new hospitals from being built. This makes everything way more expensive than it should be. The quality is still generally very good but it’s artificially expensive. If insurance companies were allowed to price risk, then it would encourage Americans to live healthier lifestyles because they would be charged much less for their insurance. Instead, the healthy are forced to subsidize those who make terrible life decisions. We also don’t know how covid deaths were exaggerated either way. In America, hospitals were incentivized to claim a death happened from Covid. The Cuban government may have suppressed their numbers to make them look better.

@@ryanlazarus3381 Cuban system is preventive healthcare with doctors available anytime, it is D.O.S. like USSR proven system, China uses exactly the same approach. The US tried to implement it in Medicare... This is the main reason Cuban and Chinese numbers are much better. Plus medical schools are free in Cuba, not sure about China.

@@iam8401 Yes we should trust the numbers these clear and transparent governments give us...smh.

@@iam8401 I see your comments everywhere you are shilling for Cuba as if it is a beacon that all nations of Earth should follow. Just because America had more COVID deaths doesn't mean healthcare is worse. There's many factors why America had more COVID deaths, for starters, many Americans that died from COVID were in poor shape, I.E. They were Obese,od with weak immune system,newborns with weak immune systems, or they had health conditions prior due to poor life choices I.E. Excessive smoking or drinking. I am Australian and we have both private and public healthcare. It is why we beat Canada in healthcare.

Fascinating how seemingly every 'successful' soc society in their '(semi-)successful' phase had larger states acting as sugar daddies for them. Would explain soc insistence that capitalist success stories work the same way as a major case of projection.

Kinda like the US pays for NATO and Europe can afford it's "free" healthcare because they actually get a free military.

yk the US has a special migration law solely for Cuban doctors? if they're working abroad and they arrive in the usa they're given a permanent residency visa. Obviously, despite all its social programs, Cuba is still a poor country (it's almost like there's a whole ass embargo implemented by the biggest economical power) just like all of Latin America. The reason it's so easy for them is because the US wants to make Cuba look bad so that goobers that wont do any research like you start spouting arbitrary numbers.

What lies?

@@web-angel uhhh… how about you watch the video.

@@truemvp27 I did, and I'd like you to tell me what lies have been exposed.

@@web-angel no thanks, if you’re too dense to understand the video then I’d just be wasting my time. Have a great day!

Definitely better than in Haiti, Puerto Rico and Jamaica.

@@iam8401 their medical system definitely is. But malnutrition isn't a problem in Jamaica.

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My sister lived in Morocco for a few years. Americans can't understand how "bribing" is a part of every transaction. Everyone goes to the end of the line, or is simply dropped and forgotten, with a little (and it has to be subtle) "something extra." Here's a couple dollars, maybe you'd like to buy your daughter a cup of coffee.

Reason Foundation is the propaganda offshoot of Koch brothers: As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Reason Foundation is supported by donations and sale of its publications. According to 2012 disclosures, its largest donors were the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation ($1,522,212) and the Sarah Scaife Foundation ($2,016,000).

Lol, there's a common denominator here if you're not aware: the financial empire of the US akin to the optimates of the late Roman empire but with guns and nukes. Actually, clearly I have nothing better to do and I certainly don't fault anyone for not knowing this shit (hell, I was a "libertarian" dipshit for most of my life myself) so let me flesh out some historical context of the "cold" war conveniently ignored by the palimpsest of flattened manichean historical revisionism for anyone circumstantially unfamiliar: we can trace the history of US hegemony/empire ("Pax Americana") back to its relative origin. Post-WWII the US essentially took the imperial baton from the British and their pound sterling through establishing the Bretton-Woods international financial system, leveraged by the US by being the only industrialized nation-state _not_ bombed to shit , cementing the dollar as the "global reserve currency" which through the IMF/World Bank imperial financial tentacles, the Marshall plan (and, since it's "in the news", NATO - its geopolitical function as internally recognized by its first secretary general: "keep the Americans in, the Germans down, and the Russians out"; oops, not at all a "defensive military alliance" afterall lol, literally a protection racket...also see: Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq) and their post-'71 (Nixon shock) -debt peonage/resource/labor control austerity policy- "structural adjustment" programs (the "washington consensus"), lends capital in dollar loans under the stipulation of absolute control of labor/markets/resources by US corporate/financial capital - "an offer they can't refuse" essentially; any nation-states refusing to bend the knee like Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, et al. get at the very least unilaterally sanctioned and withheld from US dominated global markets and of course perpetually coup-ed by the CIA or just overtly invaded, tracking the CIA's "regime change" operational history will reveal this super transparently. Just a few reference points, take a look at NATO and color revolutions, Operation Gladio ("stay behind" fascist paramilitary in case of Soviet invasion ostensibly, "strategy of tension", the "years of lead" in Italy, Aldo Moro assassination, Bologna bombings, etc.), Operation Cyclone (Afghanistan arming/funding/training the Salafi-jihadist mujahideen before/after/during the Saur revolution to, in the words of Zbigniew Brzezinski its cold-warrior architect, _"give the USSR its own Vietnam"_ , mujahideen later fracture into Al Qaeda and the taliban..."oops"), Operation Condor (Monroe Doctrine 2: no sovereignty for you), Iran installing the Shah in '53 (Operation AJAX, oil of course), Guatemala in '54 (Operation PBSUCCESS, modest land reform by Arbenz, origin of term "banana republic" with United Fruit Company), Sukarno in Indonesia (insane genocide of at least a million civilians by CIA-directed paramilitary, hopefully a pattern/chain of causality is emerging is my overarching point here regarding the geopolitics of empire), Lumumba in the Congo (famous pic of JFK crying over this, CIA assassinating him days before he takes office as they knew he supported Lumumba's vision of a unified Africa), the _first_ 9/11 in 1973 in Chile ousting democratically elected Allende to install Pinochet's military dictatorship - Nixon notably telling the CIA to "make the economy scream", this is just the tip of the imperial iceberg. In other words, what you're saying isn't some sort of coincidence, these countries aren't "underdeveloped", they're overexploited. The US has positioned itself as the "consumer of last resort" at the end of the global supply chain to absorb inevitable overproduction of capitalism through cheap consumption or of course through, as it pertains here, our favorite activity of war/arms sales (military Keynesianism, the only button we can push at this point clearly). _“In their perpetual confusion, some liberal critics conclude that foreign aid and IMF and World Bank structural adjustments ‘do not work’; the end result is less self-sufficiency and more poverty for the recipient nations, they point out. Why then do the rich member states continue to fund the IMF and World Bank? Are their leaders just less intelligent than the critics who keep pointing out to them that their policies are having the opposite effect? No, it is the critics who are stupid not the western leaders and investors who own so much of the world and enjoy such immense wealth and success. They pursue their aid and foreign loan programs because such programs do work. The question is, work for whom? Cui bono?”_ - Michael Parenti I encourage you to look at COINTELPRO from the FBI, or any/all of the operational history of the CIA, hell the entire history of "US involvement in 'regime change'" as I don't think anyone who is familiar would disagree that it is astoundingly grotesque and pretty clearly functions as the SS 2.0 for transnational corporate/finance capital. We make a graveyard and call it peace.

No money no honey

You should know that the MSM here in the USA is controlled by leftists who are trying to destroy capitalism. They never speak the truth. They rely on propaganda, lies and distortion. They easily brainwash people who listen to them regularly. They do control schools and universities too. Most of the students have been brainwashed in many ways

Because they believe propaganda just like you. Every country has its strengths and weaknesses. Cuba is the only country in the world to tell the US to go to hell and they've been paying the price ever since. If you live in the US, you know it's not great yet people are clamoring to get there. Because they have the best propaganda machines in Hollywood.

@@web-angel oh, yeah? The Cuban people didn’t tell the US to go to hell, their dictators did.

@@superdupercooper5826 riiiiight, so by that logic, since America has no dictators, by that logic the American people turned Libya into a slavery mecca, is bombing Somalia and helping to commit genocide in Yemen, right?

@@web-angel You clearly care way more about this than I do. I was simply making a funny comment. I personally do not care about international politics and take more of an isolationist view. You do realize this is more of a libertarian channel?

Lies! These doctors have benefited so many countries.

Just lookup for "mais médicos". What about be less ignorant before calling others liars?

I know many people who've gone to Cuba for and gotten treatment that they couldn't afford in the US.

@@web-angel Meet a Cuban 🤣

@@rowanrichards9410 I have met many.

Yeah, many.. that are 6% cubans lol. Meet actual cubans who escaped, or better yet go fuckin live there in a mud hut If its that great

If there were no more sanctions, what would Cuba have to trade?

@@soulfuzz368 sugar, rum, cigars....3 of the 4 Food Groups.....

@@brianjones7660 nice

If you think Cuba is bad try the u.s. system where Americans are dying MUCH younger than Cubans and u.s. mortality rates are rising! Cubans live to be 100 and in the u.s. it`s between 24-65 per UN! Americans are suffering and dying more than the Cubans are and it`s going to get a lot worse in the u.s., IT`S JUST BEGINNING!

@@dimitrioskarastamatis4919 Don't believe the CUban propaganda ... REPORTED average age of death in Cuba is 78-79 years old .. IDENTICAL to the age of death in America ... the difference is people in Cuba WANT to die !

You get that the US has imposed sanctions for decades...?

@@WhyNotTruth We have been throwing sanctions and causing genocide for years against many countries all around the world! The truth is we are watching the collapse of capitalism which is normal per History and most interestingly we are watching ALL the Old Colonized Countries rise up against the Colonialist! What`s even more interesting is that the colonialist capitalist system has destroyed itself from within and like ALL declining empires they lash out militarily only to their own demise but there`s nukes. The colonial Countries (u.s., u.k., e.u.) are collapsing financially while China, India, Iran, Russia(the sanctions are strengthening their finances) are rising and offering a better system than the nazi system the u.s. and e.u. use! Another great thing is the west and the e.u. are DONE and are only 30% of the world while 70% backs Russia, China, NOT THE u.s., and if the u.s. drama queens can control their sissy fits, realize the world is multipolar, we could have Peace, Prosperity and Freedom with China and the world, something that doesn`t exist in the u.s.!!!!

@@WhyNotTruth Most pharma is not made in the US ... there are many countries not aligned with the US Cuba can buy from ... that old Sanctions excuse is BS ... did you not watch the vid ... Cuba doesn't make anything so does not have the money to buy the products it needs .... plenty of Cuban medical staff have defected and have been telling the truth for many years.

What causes the extreme poverty? There are many houses available on the US too, why are there so many homeless?

@@web-angel have to interact with the homeless a few times a month while at work here in SoCal. Rampant drug use fueling mental illness is a big driver, a handfull are hippie burnouts. Very few would choose to live in a responsible way & there is alot of community help if they are willing to be sober.

@@robertgallagher7734 I'm not going to dispute your experience but did you know that 40% of the homeless are employed and significant number of them became homeless because of medical and other bankruptcies? Also, do you know of the drug use came before the homelessness or was it used as a way to cope with being homeless? How about the mental illness? Was it caused by drugs or being homeless?I think the people you think don't want to take on the responsibilities of life are in the minority.

@@web-angel my sister fried her brain with recreational drug use before she lost her marriage & job. Of the 4 people I personally knew in sddition to her who drifted into homelessness, all had prior drug issues. The one who got sober worked his way out of being homeless. 1 is dead, 1 is in prison & 1 is in a mental facility. One thing all the ones I still work around is they are looking for a quick buck & the next high. There is a shelter close to work that is mostly empty where government services are available.

@@web-angel no economy causes poverty

Despite the better parts of social programs in Cuba, it's still a poor country, that's it.

I recognize your name from pool-(billiards), but can't quite remember, I think I've seen you playing actually, video or dcc maybe?

So much different than the US lol

Yeah, like Rapacious, Crony Capitalism is SO MUCH BETTER?

The politicians over there are like Hollywood stars

@@cletusndifor8070, almost like over here.

No, you're a perfect example of communism too, duh. Bernie Sanders said so. Lol /s

I must have watched a different video, was this about the Netherlands?

Compulsory health insurance is a distortion of the free market in medicine, of course.

That's not how free markets work. Free markets require voluntary interaction between producers of goods/services and consumers of those goods.

Canadians have universal health insurance too but our doctors set up their own clinics and our labs are private companies. It’s the best of both worlds. The United States’ healthcare system isn’t a true free market either.

_'its practices are decades old'_ This even true in Sweden. My SIL is Swedish and a nurse. She was diagnosed with cancer. The only option she was presented was surgery and a stoma bag. The hospitals wouldn't even entertain other therapies she was willing to pay for. She went abroad for both surgery and chemo - she has dual citizenship in a country with a co-pay system and capped costs. This was successful and no stoma bag. Was this more expensive than Sweden? Yes. Is she happy that she did so? Yes.

Medicare uses exactly the same system. FYI.

It's incredibly to those who don't know the rest of this story.

Or liposuction!!!😅

Send him for gastric bypass.

😄🤣😂. Right!!

Not saying this source is lying but it is obviously heavily opinionated and by no means a neutral look at the situation

At the end of a gun barrel one may force action. It won't be motivated by kindness, compassion, or selflessness but by survival.

Lol where the hell might that "investigative work" be? Literally 0 sources and uh _plenty_ of precedent (to say the least) for brazen propaganda ever since the revolution (which overthrew the _US-backed_ Batista military dictatorship might be worth mentioning - gee, imagine having historical context for any of this shit). I mean my god, ever since 1959, US-imposed economic blockade. Like if "communism always fails" or whatever the fuck nonsense, kinda weird they can't just, I don't know, lift the fucking blockade then? But of course, in reality this is precisely _why_ "communism always fails" (honestly, whatever the fuck that even _means_ to begin with, considering there's no explicit heuristic). Gee, how about them "banana wars", how about that Monroe Doctrine turned Operation Condor? Guatemala in '54 when Arbenz proposes _mild_ land reforms (PBSUCCESS), Iran in '53 (AJAX) where we overthrow democratically elected Mosaddegh cuz he attempted to nationalize oil, the _first_ 9/11 in '73 in Chile overthrowing Allende for Piunochet's military dictatorship (Nixon _literally_ telling the CIA to "make the economy scream), nope, completely disconnected from imposing US "full spectrum domination" globally of course, all we do is send "freedom" and "democracy" (in the form of bombs of course, freedom bombs (tm)). Anyway, back to Cuba, put aside things like Operation Mongoose where the CIA tried to assassinate Castro in like 800 different (increasingly absurd/hilarious) ways, how about one of the more revealing operations as to what the psycho ruling class is willing to perpetrate to continue this racket: Operation fucking Northwoods? Explicit false flag _against real US targets_ to "manufacture consent" to invade, merely cancelled by that Kennedy guy. Gee, wonder why his head got blown off, what a coincidence (yes, this is sarcasm lol). From the wikipedia, if not familiar: _Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against American citizens that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for the CIA operatives to both stage and actually commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The possibilities detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas,[2] hijacking planes to be shot down or given the appearance of being shot down,[2] blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.[3] The proposals were rejected by President John F. Kennedy._ Anyway, if I keep going I'll end up writing a book (this is the _tip_ of the imperialist iceberg), but point is that this is _astoundingly_ obvious CIA bs to anyone who is not an absolute dipshit (not an isolated incident might be worth mentioning, to the contrary - pretty ubiquitous, see: Operation Mockingbird, I mean my god, look into literally _any_ of the CIA's operational history, they're the SS 2.0 for transnational corporate/financial capital). Luckily the US of A has the FREEDOM (tm) (r) (c) to pump out dipshits, another sucker born every minute. _Even putting that_ aside, from a strictly Reason (tm) (r) or logic perspective, just to add another angle here to pierce the "business ontology" that is so pervasive throughout the US that ReasonTV here loves to conflate with "objectivity" unquestionably - without the functionality of a monopsony (single-payer), "reform" is virtually pointless because the government doesn't have the market leverage a buyer-monopoly (single-payer) creates. Obamacare was for the most part ineffective and extremely corrupting in a long-term consideration precisely because it was a compromise with for-profit health insurance companies and _not_ socialized medicine, which only ossifies private market domination and continues to incentivize all these social structures purely based on how much profit can be milked as essentially rent/usury (ie value extracted _without_ value produced) rather than what is effective in, say, establishing a healthy society or gee I don't know, _actually providing people with healthcare_ , god forbid. I mean my god, the outcomes of COVID compared to any other country with socialized medicine is staggering in pretty much any metric one wants to examine. But of course that requires someone to you know, actually give a shit instead of mindlessly repeat horseshit out of the increasingly absurd propaganda trough, the only thing the US _does_ provide without cost! We love "freedom" don't we folks, tremendous, a lot of people are saying this. Literally the _only_ question of politics is cui bono? Who benefits? Shocker, corporate/finance capital is your answer every time, and for my "libertarian" dipshit friends (was one for most of my life so I get it lol, then I looked at what was right in front of all of us, slapping us across the face at every waking moment) _THIS IS WHY THE GUBMENT BAD_ - everything it does, it does at the behest of capital and the continued domination of the capitalist class over the working class. Anyway, the point is, there's literally no reason (with merit anyway) to be against single-payer or Cuba (or you know, _literally anywhere_ ) for that matter.

Spot on. According to common Cubans, if they need hospitalization there, they must bring with them the room's bedsheets and even the lightbulb.

@@sergio_botero So typical of communism and socialism. You take what you need, even though you would already have it if you deserved it.

or japan!

Forgive me for couldn't help but imagining doctors and nurses overworking even before the pandemic. I could be wrong though but these are the two nations with the longest workhour.

They probably would if they don't report one sided stories.

@@web-angel there's plenty of propaganda the other way. reasontv shows you the other side, which is much more rare. Thomas Sowell, for instance, talks about how blacks were coming out of poverty and getting higher paying jobs far more before the civil rights act than after. but the left love to be revisionist and say the other way. Same goes for the new deal pulling america out of the depression, when it was exacxtly the opposite. the depression of 1921 nothing was done about it and was short lived. but the new deal prolonged the 1928 one. And both of them were caused by the FED grabbing monopoly power over monetary policy. Same goes for the black slaves who white american colonialists get so much flack for... when it was actually Africans capturing and selling each other both to the whites later and the Arabs before. And the Arabs castrated all of their slaves... so you don't hear about the black slaves of Arab countries... while America let them live and have kids. Leftist narratives are almost all lies. And you hardly hear any pushback against them. ReasonTV supplies it, a rare oasis in the desert of leftist revisionist narratives.

it's garbage propoganda that's why

For profit system with no competition never cares about inventiveness, since R&D is too expensive and risky. 1% of rich already owns 80% of stock shares in the US, why they would risk their money trying to invent cure for the cancer for ex, if it cuts their profits from taking care of cancer patients till they have money?

you cant handle the truth!!!😄

All revolutionaries killed people… Che WAS a doctor and helped his country. Before the revolution the Cubans were Worst off. Low literacy rate and education rates.

They are literally in a bad relationship, but their abuser gives them something one day, so they are happy. It basically works like that.

They get a lot of help from the US. Maybe the US needs the sanctions diet to help their citizens live longer with fewer lifestyle diseases.

@@web-angel the embargo only applies to the US and its companies: other countries can freely trade with the Castros’ Island. In fact, Cuba imports 70-80% of its food. The widespread misery is a byproduct of the authoritarian regime taking all the money and resources to itself.

@@VincitOmniaVeritas7 that's not true. Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and now Russia are all under similar sanctions. Any company/country that does business with them faces penalties from the US. A country being able to import the bare necessities in food supply isn't the same as one that can trade freely with whomever they want.

I often thought countries with conscription always have lean looking people.

You spent at least 26 years living in communism. If not pay back your parents for food and services. With minumum wage it would be $500K at least.

@@iam8401 No man is an island, born dependent, dependency is not socialism. Incidentally, I took care of both of my parents when they became dependent, but familial loyalty/reciprocity, isn't the same thing as the coercion by government.

@@gordonmorris6359 It is your government what made you beleive that you are worthless. Cuban government took great care of their citizens, and this is the main reason it stays strong 60+ years against embargo of mightiest military complex in the world. The complex built on the socialistic principles, and taking care of their soldiers same way Cuban gov takes care of all. Paying them trillions of dollars a year from your taxes for services no one need in the US as no one wants to attack the island in PaciAtlantic ocean.

@@iam8401 As a Libertarian (of the minarchist type), my party has always opposed tariffs, sanctions, and embargos, including the Cuban embargo.

Many Americans are in agreement that the embargo should stop and that let Cubans engage in their own free enterprise activities let them do that and they will fix many of these problems on their own without the government.

@@chrissnyder2091 not happening

if they remove the embargo they would just buy more stuff to supress the people and you can't even a open a damn store in Cuba when they start seeing you are gaining more money than the lower class and you are becoming a elite they confiscate evrything there was a Disco close to my house when I lived in Cuba that was private when the goverment caught a glimpse of it they consfiscate it and put it on the news like if their were criminals also I lived close to another insident where a popular artist who bought a old house haved the same happen to him he was gifting people clothes and food.

@@AlejandroMartinez-it4qq well the American government will avoid it because that means they'll lose leverage over the people of Cuba and its government

@@chrissnyder2091 the best the internacional community could do is put sanctions on the island freeze the money accounts of the dictatorship and shot all tourism in to the Island if that happens they will either leave or a maxive protest will happen and they will be overthrown the reason they have not left is because they can keep sucking money from the Island if they are put against corner they will get out of Cuba and try to scape. There are no countries that wish to trade with Cuba because they gain nothing from it the dictatorship never paids back they are in debt to evryone at this point.

Exactly. Amerikkka has the finest health care on earth...if you have the finest bank account. It's a descending scale from there.

They would argue that it’s not real socialism because it’s a totalitarian regime when in reality one element brings about the other. They are really this dense.

@@lrod312 exactly. These idiots don’t realize that socialism and communism in practice will NEVER match what they look like “on paper.” This is because NOTHING on earth is ever that simple. You have to live in reality where things are complicated not some idealistic fantasy.

To be fair we have a shortage of skilled craftsmen in this country after years of screaming at kids to go to college. That worked out well, didnt it?

How's that Rapacious Crony Capitalist medical system working for everyone concerned?

You need to consider the economic situation that Cuba is put under by the US, the embargo has absolutely crippled the economy.

Shhhh....nobody wants to talk about that.

Thank you for your honesty!

Honest question, if the embargo ended today, what would Cuba have to trade?

@@web-angel if the embargo ended, what would Cuba be able to trade America for better health supplies?

@@soulfuzz368 this isn't an honest question because if it were, you could've done a simple country search online and realize that Cuba has many things that they can trade. You should have already known that the embargo doesn't only prevent trade in goods but, every imaginable resource; including human and educational. Imagine that in the past 2 months Russia has been cut off from international banking systems and the havoc it has caused them: now Imagine the scenario that Cuba has been systematically blocked from this very system from their revolution. You don't want the honest truth though...

It was. On educating more doctors, for free...

The USA Health Care system has Congress bought and paid for .. The biggest Problem with USA Health Care is the Rediculous Prices they chare.. I suppose a lot of that money goes towards Liability Insurnace.. they need to cap the amount that can be paid in Liability claims.. Malpractice claims ..

Huh? Explain? It's one-sided reporting like this why people like you don't want a socialized healthcare system.

@@web-angel The Truth is the Truth. I am always on the side of Truth. Wike up don't be a Brainwashed Sheople. If you want Free health care just move to Cuba and you will be happy!

@@mikeskidmore6754 the irony in your statement is palpable. Read it back to yourself in the mirror. By the way, I have free healthcare and am very happy with it. I even get back my parking costs. I'm pretty sure you'd like it too.

@@web-angel See, this is exactly what I’m talking about. lol. Americans already have socialized healthcare. America’s healthcare system is socialized healthcare with a little bit of privatization. The answer is NOT total government control. What we need is more of the opposite. If people will stop lying about how great government healthcare is then we can make real progress. If we laugh at the idea of the government designing the next smart phone, then why would you want them in charge of something as crucial as healthcare. Lol

Have seen Cuban cigars in Canada for the past 50 years !

The US blocked all trade by allowing Batista relatives to sue anyone in world who trades Cuba.

That's not true at all. Companies and countries are punished if they do trade. Ships that go to Cuba cannot go to America for 6 months after so most ships don't want to go there. As was said here many American medical supplies don't do business with Cuba because it's not worth their while to face the hassle that comes with it. This is one sided reporting at best.

@@web-angel no the one side reporting is how a tiny totalitarian country that oppresses its people also delivers superior medical care. Thousands of people die trying to go to America from Cuba. If the healthcare was so great to counter balance the totalitarianism do you think those people would leave?

@@dariusthurman8835the average Cuban get better healthcare than the average American. In 2022, America oppresses more Cubans with their sanctions than the Cuban government does. Cuba is communist. America will become totalitarian before Cuba does. Do you think Cubans risk their lives to go to America for its healthcare? 🤣 Just so you know, there #are Cubans living in America who return to Cuba for their healthcare.

Don’t forget no freedom of speech. YET a 100% literacy rate and an amazing education system because a government that wants to oppress its people would educate them 🤦‍♂️

Cuba has plenty of trade partners. They have nothing to trade because they have no economy. Sanctions don’t help but their struggles are most definitely not because of sanctions.

So the one thing you know is blatant propaganda wich ignore the reality presented in the video?

That doesn’t hold water in any way. Are you saying the insurance companies have no power? The insurance companies want to minimize expenses, where is their outrage at getting soaked for treatment over cure? What about the doctors? For your theory to work every single medical professional would have to be on board with extending suffering jn the name of profit, that’s ridiculous. Why don’t you list some of the cures that we are forgoing in the name of continued treatment? Be specific.

True but god damn you will usually have to wait a reaaaaallllly long time… best healthcare is in Europe where they have a blended system of private and public like Switzerland.

Don't think it's acceptable but paying a doctor $5 a month is not acceptable either. But I guess you missed the whole point of that smh

About 1.25 dollars if you can find it in stock. Keep in mind that most Cubans make less than 100 dollars a month though.

You wouldn't find one in stock

@@williambauer4826 thanks to the effects of decades of US sanctions

@@jt6404 Thank you for responding!

The ones who advocate it want power but they end up tricking young people who are too naive

As long as they had to live as the rank and file citizens and not as some kind of celebrity.

Heck give them some land and time to draft a constitution. It would be worth it to get rid of them. They'll squander everything they are given of course and blame global capitalism for their failure but at least they won't be allowed back out again

Pierre Trudeau and his wife certainly liked to visit Castro.

I've been wanting to leave them in Venezuela, it's a lot more dangerous

It is far from obvious that no health care is worse than poor health care.

No need for belief. You can consider evidence. Reason has a decades long reputation for journalism and reporting. They have standards that they can be evaluated against. Your average social media poster doesn't have any of those things. Consider Reason's reputation and biases, and evaluate the claims accordingly.

Seeing all this with your own eyes is highly recommendable. Go to Havana and visit a common hospital where the commoners go, or at least try, since the police will prevent it.

They shouldn't need one

@@alexharris2495WHAT DO YOU MEAN. The USA has a whole embargo on Cuba

Yeah, this was the first I'd heard of Bush's program to offer asylum to Cuban doctors. Not a sentence I say a lot, but, Good Job Bush.