Why would anyone want to leave this "workers' " paradise???

[healthmyths]

Cuba's young see bleak future, many want to leave
Leave to go where???

Most hope to go to the United States, only 90 miles away, following in the footsteps of an estimated 1.5 million who have preceded them since the revolution.

Why would they want to leave "universal health care" held up as a leading source.. except when you look closer..
"Although medical attention remains free, many patients did and still do bring their doctors food, money or other gifts to get to the front of the queue or to guarantee an appointment for an X-ray, blood test or operation.

If you do not have a contact or money to pay under the table, the waiting time for all but emergency procedures can be ridiculously long.

Many Cubans complain that top-level government and Communist Party officials have access to VIP health treatment, while ordinary people must queue from dawn for a routine test, with no guarantee that the allotted numbers will not run out before it is their turn.

And while the preventative healthcare system works well for children, women over the age of 40 are being shortchanged because yearly mammograms are not offered to the population at large.

I saw many hospitals where there was often no running water, the toilets did not flush, and the risk of infections - by the hospital's own admission - was extremely high.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/06/201265115527622647.html"

Why is this the case for the showcase of Universal Health care???

 

[Sunni Man]

Cuba, and especially N. Korea, are the perfect examples of the type of utopia that liberals/progressives enthusiastically want the U.S. to eventually become. ..

 

[healthmyths]

Glad you mentioned N.Korea.. because they've found a solution to their famine...

"In one particularly disturbing report, a man from South Hwanghae was said to be put to death by firing squad after it was learned he had eaten his two children. "In my village in May, a man who killed his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad," reports Asia Press with reference to one of its 'insiders'. "While his wife was away on business he killed his eldest daughter and, because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well. When the wife came home, he offered her food, saying: We have meat. But his wife, suspicious, notified the Ministry of Public Security, which led to the discovery of part of their children's bodies under the eaves." Another insider journalist claimed that "there was an incident when a man was arrested for digging up the grave of his grandchild and eating the remains."

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