September 11, 2007

Last Friday, John Stossel (ABC News 20/20) challenged Michael Moore on his depiction in Sicko of the Cuban health care system as offering better care than that found in the U.S.

Said Moore:

"All the world health organizations or whatever have confirmed that if there's one thing they do right in Cuba, it's health care...And there's very little debate about that."

Stossel, however, made the cogent point that the only data anyone has on Cuban health statistics are those provided by the Cuban government - which isn't exactly a bastion of free inquiry.

George Utset, who runs the anti-Castro Web site called therealcuba.com, says Moore's group didn't "go to the hospital for regular Cubans. They go to the hospital for the elite and it's [a] very different condition."

Darsi Ferrer, a human rights advocate in Cuba, issued an SOS via telephone, wanting the world to know that ordinary Cubans are "crazy with desperation" over the horrendous state of their health care.

The interview is available on YouTube.

Posted by Paul Howard at September 11, 2007 03:15 PM

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