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A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba — now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and the complex realities confronting the movement to make health care everyone’s birth right.
Duration : 0:2:41
One of the people …
One of the people that made this film, Lissa Wienmann, just spoke at my college. American’s are completely ignorant about Cuba (not that it is their fault, they are just not informed). Cuban culture can teach Americans a lot of valuable things. Cuba’s best attributes are America’s worst (healthcare and education). Cuba has a lot to offer the U.S.; hopefully our governments can start negotiations and start helping each other.
Comment by sloco19 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
This makes me want …
This makes me want to cry. Cuba also has a great organic agricultural system where a large percentage of food is grown locally to where it is consumed. No wonder Bush won’t let us visit Cuba. It would set off a revolution.
Comment by Cr8Joi — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
I’ve seen this film …
I’ve seen this film many times. It’s great. Regarding Cuba’s health care system, facts speak for themselves.
Comment by QueBolaDoc — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Hmmmm,,you Fud.I …
Hmmmm,,you Fud.I have many rebuttals but Fud fits the best.
Comment by poneil69 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Responding to a …
Responding to a terribly inaccurate and biased ABC TV Report on Cuban health care (and indirectly to the bunch of malicious people posting misinformation about Cuba’s unquestionable achievements in health care) a large group of most distinguished American doctors and healthcare professionals who have been to Cuba to work on many occasions, prepared an angry letter of rebuttal. EXCERPTS from the letter, marked ONE to SIX, hopefully appear below. Search for this in HuffingtonpostDOTcom.
Comment by cocuyoencendio — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
ONE Cuba’s health …
ONE Cuba’s health statistics are not “made up” by government officials to portray a false, glowing picture of public health…. The 20/20 piece dismisses the validity of statistics from the United Nations and the World Health Organization because they come from Cuban health officials, but Mr. Stossel fails to mention that this is how UN statistics are gathered from all countries.
Comment by cocuyoencendio — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
TWO “Cuba’s …
TWO “Cuba’s economic problems during the 1990s resulted in the physical deterioration of many of its hospitals. However, 52 of these hospitals are now undergoing needed repairs and remodeling. Although Mr. Moore and his 9/11 responders did go to one of the refurbished facilities, this hospital serves 156,000 people living in one of Havana’s most overcrowded neighborhoods. It is not a hospital reserved for government elites or foreigners.”
Comment by cocuyoencendio — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
THREE “The claim …
THREE “The claim that Cuban women are commonly subjected to forced abortions is patently false. By law, abortion in Cuba is accessible and free. But for years, abortion rates have been dropping, not climbing. When congenital malformations occur during pregnancy, women are informed of their options and permitted to make a personal decision, as they are in many other countries.”
Comment by cocuyoencendio — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
FOUR “In fact, …
FOUR “In fact, entire facilities such as the Children’s Heart Center in Havana and a national network of special schools are dedicated to children who are born with congenital problems. “When it comes to health care, Cuba manages to do a lot with a little, scoring comparably with the United States on many health indicators at a fraction of the cost.”
Comment by cocuyoencendio — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
FIVE “A Gallup Poll …
FIVE “A Gallup Poll conducted last year revealed that 96 percent of Cuban citizens said they had regular access to health care, no matter who they were or what their income. We urge ABC NEWS to correct the false statements and impressions presented in Mr. Stossel’s report.”
Comment by cocuyoencendio — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
SIX — SIGNING THE …
SIX — SIGNING THE MENTIONED LETTER: Peter G. Bourne, MD, MA – Chair, MEDICC Board of Directors .mediccDOTorg – Visiting Scholar at Green College, Oxford University. Alfred W. Brann Jr., MD – Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine Harry E. Douglas III, DPA (Retired) – former Executive Vice President and former Interim President, Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science. Chair, Board of Regents, Southern California University of Health Sciences AND MANY MORE
Comment by cocuyoencendio — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
El hipocrita de …
El hipocrita de Fidel lleva medicos a otros paises solo para ganarles la mente haciendoles pensar que el socialismo los ama y como los dirigentes de dichos paises permiten esto, sin saber que es hecho a costilla del sufrimiento de los cubanos los cuales ironicamente carecen de atencion medica.
Comment by ana232 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
This crappy piece …
This crappy piece of Hitler’s youth like totalitarian propaganda movie “Salud” is the one that’s biased. Most likely financed by the Cuban government too. I didn’t see any comments from doctors like Darsi Ferrer in Cuba there, nor di I see any hospitals for regular cubans.
Comment by cubano1979 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
50 years of a …
50 years of a totalitarian dictatorship, concentration camps like the UMAP, lack of freedoms of expression and religion, firing squads, the most per capita political prisoners in the world and an apartheid under which Cubans are not allowed to go to the elite hospitals, hotels and nice beaches in exchange for crappy clinics lacking medicines and doctors and sparing cockroaches, NO WAY, THANKS Michael!
Comment by cubano1979 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
The Cuban …
The Cuban government exports doctors abroad as a propaganda tool and as a means to get cash in exchange for cheap (almost slave-like) labor without taking in consideration their shortage in the island. “Free health care” is misleading, the gov keeps more than 95 percent of the salaries and is the only employer allowed. Even doctors make less than 20 dollars a month. Cubans also have to do “voluntary work” in their spare time, forcefully attend gov marches and donate money to gov organizations.
Comment by cubano1979 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Only those useful …
Only those useful idiots who have never lived under a totalitarian dictatorship can believe Cuban government figures. The reality is there is a terrible apartheid like system where only the elite, paying foreigners and special interest fools like M Moore receive decent health care. Regular Cubans have to rely on medicines sent from their relatives in Miami, they are only allowed to go to crappy hospitals where they have to bring their own sheets, food and where hygiene is appalling.
Comment by cubano1979 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Hitler’s youth’s …
Hitler’s youth’s propaganda videos were more entertaining than this joke. They send all these doctors and medicines abroad for propaganda purposes while my own family (regular cubans, not elite or foreign useful idiots) are lacking them both and are not allowed in the elite hospitals. They have to go to crumbling clinics lacking doctors where they have to provide their own sheets and food and they have to rely on medicines sent from Miami.
Comment by cubano1979 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
What a cheap piece …
What a cheap piece of totalitarian propaganda! Is this a sick joke? Cuban nationals aren’t even allowed in these hospitals, they are only for the elite, paying foreigners and special interest useful idiots like M Moore. Take a look at the hospitals for regular cubans in my profile or type therealcuba in google.
Comment by cubano1979 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
The embargo should …
The embargo should be having no affect since, you know, communist share and share alike. That was the promise anyway.
Comment by rgonz71 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
I find your …
I find your explanation ridiculous. Usually when you get a second opinion you go to another hospital not another country! It wouldn’t be as ridiculous if Spain bordered Cuba as say Canada borders the US but c’mon, Spain? It’s thousands of miles away for Gods sake.
Comment by rgonz71 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Actually it happens …
Actually it happens all the time. You don’t have to be rich to become a doctor. Come to North Philly and interview the doctors around here.
Comment by rgonz71 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
because they wanted …
because they wanted a second medical opinion (as millions of people in usa, canada and everywhere else)….spanish doctors were in cuba 24 hours..therefore they did not treat him (procedure which would be last a little more than that..don’t you think?…)
Comment by gicarlos666 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
If Cuban health …
If Cuban health care is so great, then why did Castro have SPANISH doctors treat him?
Comment by StoogeWatcher — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Having been to Cuba …
Having been to Cuba I was amazed at the number of Graduates,however with the illegal embargo,opportunities are short an a job in a hotel is desirable for the tips
Comment by poneil69 — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Poor people to …
Poor people to become Doctors. Wouldnt happen in the U.S.
Comment by kilkennykat — November 5, 2009 @ 10:30 am