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sabre

4th March 2002, 23:04

The other night Castro held a cigar auction, which is very famous and cigar afficiandos from around the world come to buy the best cigars there. He raised over 600,000 (i think, the exact figure is in the newspaper upstairs)

Guess what he did with this big amount of money?

He gave it to the Cuban Healthcare System

Bush would never ever do that for his people...

Anonymous

4th March 2002, 23:41

Brilliant, Did you know that JFK stole like 2000 cigars from cuba for the white house, just before banning trade shit

PunkRawker677

5th March 2002, 01:52

$653,200 for the health care system.. sure, bush would do that, but he'd lie and say they only raised $1.50.. lol..

Capatilists on this board, i guess this REALLY shows how EVIL castro is.. lol..

I Will Deny You

5th March 2002, 01:53

Maybe Bush would hold a cocaine auction. Of course the money wouldn't go to the United States healthcare system because we don't have one.

Irish, I never knew that JFK banned anything from Cuba. Maybe you're thinking of another president--JFK died more than a decade before Batista was overthrown. Anyway, we've had worse presidents. JFK started lots of social security and welfare-type programs, was an environmentalist, and employed Rennie Davis' dad. As Nixon would never say, vat a mensch!

rebel7609

5th March 2002, 01:57

We have a health care system. You just have to work and pay for it. We have the best healthcare in the world. To me, it's worth paying for. I sure wouldn't want to be deathly sick in Cuba.

RedRevolutionary87

5th March 2002, 02:30

actuay cuba has about the same life expectancy as the usa(this is great considering they cant buy advil) and there litteracy rate is higher, i trust their helthcare much more than i would that of the usa

PunkRawker677

5th March 2002, 03:02

I Will Deny You

5th March 2002, 03:42

Rebel, I meant a healthcare system run by the state, not a private healthcare system. I've never liked Castro and I've never pretended to . . . these days I wouldn't want to be in Cuba at all, period.

Supermodel

5th March 2002, 15:35

Good to see Fidel practicing his free market skills.......

pastradamus

5th March 2002, 17:24

ahh ol' fidel,he is a god among men.I love that guy!

sabre

5th March 2002, 21:40

the funny thing is that the US bought the meningitis vaccine from cuba and i doubt we even thanked them. I bet the US tried to take credit for it lol

Moskitto

5th March 2002, 21:53

rebel.. the U.s.' healthcare system sux ass.. i have healthcare and waited 14 hours to get my broken hand fixed, and about 300 dollars later, its still fucked up.. i rebroke that hand in cuba, not being a cuban-citizen, and they casted me up in about 20 minutes, no one even asked if i had insurance..

Yep the American healthcare system does suck. In Britain (a country notorious for it's bad healthcare system) I only had to wait about 2 hours to sort out a compacted toe. And it was free.

But In Britain there's also private healthcare as well which is better for some things than the free healthcare eg. Cortorising my nose.

Also insurance in America is bloody expensive. Trust me, my dad works for an insurance company and gets lots of queries from Americans because the prices are so much cheaper over here.

sabre

5th March 2002, 21:58

the cool thing is we get free healthcare because my dad is a teacher

STALINSOLDIERS

5th March 2002, 22:11

actually in other countrys people are more healthier because there not alot of pullution.....in the usa is does takes a while theres over crowded hospitals and some dont even get done withing few hours.....in dominican republic they take care of people as soon they get to the hospital and its cheap.......long lives fidel all that lies about him is not true fidel is a great man look at what he done after a hurricane hitted the island he wanted to help the people....

Nateddi

5th March 2002, 22:35

Quote: from RedRevolutionary87 on 3:30 am on Mar. 5, 2002
actuay cuba has about the same life expectancy as the usa(this is great considering they cant buy advil) and there litteracy rate is higher, i trust their helthcare much more than i would that of the usa

The life expectancy in cuba was 55 shortly after Batista was overthrown. Its 75 now.

RedRevolutionary87

5th March 2002, 22:57

ya and in the usa its like what 78?, and cubas litteracy rate is around 92 i think

Nateddi

5th March 2002, 23:22

in the U$, its 72male, 78 female.

and literacy rate in cuba is 98-99. 92 is very low

Guest

6th March 2002, 06:47

the numbers speak for themselves

Zippy

6th March 2002, 20:05

In Britain we tax cigarettes and give it to the NHS, c'est la vie.

Zippy.

Supermodel

6th March 2002, 20:10

Yeah but at least the dentists in the US will give you a perfect smile, assuming you want to spend a few thousand $$$ on one. Nice how you can have your face rearranged if you have money but can't get your busted lip stitched if you're poor.

In the US the really worst off are the working poor. At least people on welfare get free healthcare, if you're just above the poverty line, there's no way to afford health insurance.

Capitalist

6th March 2002, 21:31

Big Fucking Deal.

Free Healthcare for whom?

Not Cubans - I can assure you of that fact!

The only people recieving quality healthcare in Cuba are the foreignors and tourists - who pay big American Dollars for it.

The free/Cuban healthcare in Cuba is worthless.

The socialistic system can not even provide the essential medicines and equipment necessary to treat the Native Cuban (unless of course he is a governemnt official)

RedRevolutionary87

6th March 2002, 21:48

haha your kinda dumb, actualy cubans do get free healcare, they also get free education(including unversity) and i would trust theire healthcare more than the u$ healthcare, at least in cuba they wont give me some consumer drug that does get rid of the pain but also makes sure you die at 50 since old people cost money

poncho

7th March 2002, 05:37

"The only people recieving quality healthcare in Cuba are the foreignors and tourists - who pay big American Dollars for it."

Actuelly the Cuban hospitals are better than what I've seen here in Canada. My Cuban friends mother had cancer, she got chemo (sp?) right away. My cousin has to drive 6hrs away to an American city to get treatment, if she wants it in Canada its a 7month wait.

Yes, Cuba sometimes runs low on supply's but that is due to the embargo. It also effects the tourist medical clinics that do cost alot, but they do not cost Cubans in decrease of care.