Pat Oliphant for November 21, 2013

Not a joke, actually. Medical leeches, and medical maggots, are in common and effective use in modern medicine. Both are classified by the FDA as “live medical devices.” Leeches have several potential applications, and are especially useful to control clotting and improve circulation in cosmetic, reconstructive and reattachment surgery. Typically, they run around $8 apiece, plus.

Radish, and that thar is the good ole unregulated capitalism that we want in the good ole US of A. Those Europeans are pansies using that socialism and communism. we are for freedom and individual rats to go die in that ditch without any hand outs from Obama. We is free here, boy free.

Typical of a liberal, Oliphant seems to believe government was created only to take of people instead of simply insuring the liberties to create your own achievements.

Your doctor on the Obamacare Bronze plan…

The simple fact that health care corporations are a business and like any business their business is to provide profit.

“Ask not what your country can do for you”…. Kennedy could never be a democrat today.Kennedy was speaking to those who were already well off. He ran on a platform of social justice & economic fairness. Now, Kennedy would have to run as a Green or something. Heck, Ronald Reagan would be moderate Democrat in modern politics.

Since you ask Debt Free about the health care of the Cuban people, here are some facts and figures:

The Cuban government operates a national health system and assumes fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. There are no private hospitals or clinics as all health services are government-run. The present Minister for Public Health is Roberto Morales Ojeda.An overall improvement in terms of disease and infant mortality rates was observed in the 1960s. AIDS is only one-sixth as common on a per-capita basis as in the United States. Like the rest of the Cuban economy, Cuban medical care suffered following the end of Soviet subsidies in 1991; the stepping up of the US embargo against Cuba at this time also had an effect. Cuba has one of the highest life expectancy rates in the region, with the average citizen living to 78.05 years old3 (in comparison to the United States’ 78.62 years).

In 2007, the life expectancies at birth were as follows (World Bank data):Cuba, 78.26 years;World, 68.76 years;Latin America and Caribbean, 73.13 years;high income OECD countries, 79.66 years;United States, 77.99 years.

The mortality rates for children under five in 2007 were as follows (World Bank):Cuba, 6.5;World, 68.01;Latin America and Caribbean, 26.37;high-income OECD, 5.71;United States, 7.60.

In 2005, Cuba had 627 physicians and 94 dentists per 100,000 population. That year the United States had 225 physicians and 54 dentists per 100,000 population;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba