Only The Best For Fidel
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Health Care, Welfare & Entitlements
You would think, what with Cuba’s health care service that is envied by leftists the world over, that Castro could not possibly be wanting for care. You’d be wrong.
Nothing exposes the myth of Cuba’s vaunted health care system quite like the news that ailing dictator Fidel Castro refuses to use it. Instead, he prefers care from Spain. What hypocrisy.
Over the weekend, Cuba flew in Dr. Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, chief of the gastrointestinal care unit at Madrid’s Gregorio Maranon Hospital, to look over the aging dictator and see if there was anything he could do.
Spanish medics also brought in new capitalist-world medical equipment, part of a series of such shipments the Cuban government has been quietly provisioning for Castro since June, well before he ceded power to his brother, Raul.
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