Reply #14: Not from a site at all. It's from direct conversation... [View All]

[eomer]

with members of my extended family when they arrived from Cuba and also from extended family who still had a mother, sister, cousin, etc. still in Cuba and were sending medicines over and were familiar with the details when someone was ill. This is over a period of quite a few years. The conversations I'm talking about weren't political, they were about the personal lives of loved ones and they were specific in the details.

Granted, this information is anecdotal but you will find in Miami it is common knowledge by anyone who has family over there.

And don't get me wrong - I'm not a fan of our system by any means. I think our medical insurance system is scandalous, as is the drug industry, and not a model that anyone should follow. Universal coverage is one aspect of the Cuban system that I agree with and I otherwise favor policies in this area that would be considered liberal. But there are severe problems in the Cuban system and it is not a great system that we can really learn from.