Tuesday, September 30, 2008

this is the new frontier

When I was living in Iowa I had to video a speech rudy giuliani gave. I was just doing some editing with the clip and recent events caused me to find particular importance to his ideas on health care. I guess he is often asked to recommend hospitals to individuals going through prostate cancer, which he survived.  He talked about no one ever calling him up for references to Cuban hospitals or English hospitals- or any country with a nationalized health care system.  People always want American ones. He thinks therefore a privately owned system is better, disregarding the fact that Cuba does have the best health care system of the developing world.  The reason that they are not as good as the United States is not because the system in nationalized but because they must make due under the strain of our sanctions against them.  one of the guys I was working with in Iowa is in Cuba right now doing a project on the health care system. I look forward to his findings.

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