Oh Canada!

One of the places where castroite propaganda is taken quite literally as the Gospel truth is Canada. But there are some clear thinkers in the great white north. Mark Milke is apparently one of them. He has authored a great column that reveals things about the vaunted Cuban health system that even I didn’t know.
For instance:

A 2003 report from American Journal of Public Health found that 33% of all Cuban refugee children had intestinal parasites, 21% had lead poisoning and all had higher-than-normal levels of disease. During the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Cuban athletes apparently were the highest users of the Olympic system’s free health clinics. The clinics reported that Cuban athletes long-neglected health needs went as far as a lack of even simple dentistry.
More useful things to know about Cuban health care: The Cuban regime routinely releases how low its infant mortality rate is compared with the rate in the United States. On January 3, 2006, the official Communist party newspaper Gramna boasted that Cuba reduced its infant mortality rate in 2006 to 5.3 per 1,000 live births, considerably below the U.S. rate of 6.0, from 2004.

Here’s something else to consider:

The Cuban regime routinely releases how low its infant mortality rate is compared with the rate in the United States. On January 3, 2006, the official Communist party newspaper Gramna boasted that Cuba reduced its infant mortality rate in 2006 to 5.3 per 1,000 live births, considerably below the U.S. rate of 6.0, from 2004.
Think about that: most countries take a year or two to compile and release health data. Somehow, Cuba manages to get all the data together for the previous year, release and publish it three days into January – for the year just ended.

Thank you Mr. Milke. You are doing your countrymen a great service by telling them the truth.