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To: Sully- who wrote (59606)	6/5/2007 6:41:37 PM
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Restating The Obvious By podcasts@redstate.com (Redstate Network) on Featured Stories Redstate - Conservative News and Community For the umpteenth time, it appears that it has been made necessary for someone to write about the fact--which should be obvious by now--that life in Cuba really is bad. And given the state of current cinematic events, it would seem that the following passage (whose point, again, should be obvious by now) needs to be emphasized for those who are "reality-based" in name only: <<< Healthcare and education are supposed to be the redeeming graces of the regime, but this is questionable. There are a large number of doctors, but, according to most Cubans I know, many have left the country and the health system is in a ragged state--apart from those hospitals reserved for foreigners--and people often have to pay a bribe to get treated. Michael Moore, the American film director, who has recently been praising the system should take note of the real life stories beneath the statistics. I went into a couple of hospitals for locals on my latest visit. In the first, my friend told me not to say a word in case my accent was noticed, as foreigners are not allowed in these places. I was appalled by the hygiene and amazed at the antiquity of the building and some of the equipment. I was told that the vast majority of Cuban hospitals, apart from two in Havana, were built before the revolution. Which revolution, I wondered; this one seemed to date from the 1900s. On another occasion, I saw a man in a white coat with a stethoscope around his neck hurrying along the boulevard of Vedado, in west Havana. We struck up a conversation. He was on his way to the hospital around the corner. I asked him if he would take me there. He was charming and intelligent, and had that ease of communication that many Cubans possess: he wasn't at all taken aback by an unknown woman in dark glasses asking to accompany him to work. The doctor told me that I shouldn't be too shocked; the hospital was being "refurbished." The building certainly was in a state of filth and decrepitude. This was not a place one would want to be ill in. >>> redstate.com prospect-magazine.co.uk