The Cuban Health System

The Cuban Medical system.

Over at the ASI blog, Tim Worstall asks if the Cuban Health statistics are true.

I can’t comment as to the statistical verisimilitude, but I can provide some perspective on the standard of care—via a junior doctor friend who was sent on elective in Cuba, in February and March of this year.

People may get treatment, but it is (to be understated) not good: my friend used phrases like “torture”, “gynaecological violence”, and “shocking filth”.

Births are often “‘induced’ by violently finger-banging the mother”; she describes seeing a doctor “up to his elbow in a woman’s vagina”; “c-sections performed, and sewn up, without any anaesthetic at all”; and women “left in agony without even an aspirin”.

There are, really, no drugs at all beyond basic opiates, aspirin, etc.—and doctors prefer to “wait and see” for days before prescribing even those: the preferred option is to see if the (literally) screaming patient has any family who will bring them painkillers first.

Many of the medical procedures and practices that we take for granted in civilised societies are dismissed as “Western propaganda” or “unproven lies”.

So, having heard from someone first-hand about the Cuban medical system, I would say that the statistics are highly dubious: and, even if they are true, they hardly paint the whole picture—which would look like something painted by Hieronymus Bosch.

Incredibly, I have had arguments with stupid fucking socialists who extol the virtues of Cuba’s medical system—useful idiots who uncritically cite WHO statistics whilst having no idea about the reality. These people are either ignorant or lying.

Be in no doubt that the Cuban medical system is—like everything else in that poverty-stricken shit-hole—an absolute fucking nightmare. But most enraging of all—as in Venezuela—it is a nightmare built and maintained by precisely the kind of evil socialist shitbag who refuses to believe that hard socialism always and everywhere leads to poverty and oppression.

In other words, the kind of arsehole that supports that monkey Corbyn, and his organ-grinder McDonnell.