Exposing Michael Moore's Lies About Cuba
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"All the world health organizations or whatever [sic] have confirmed that if there's one thing they do right in Cuba, it's health care. And there's very little debate about that."-- Michael Moore
Reporter John Stossel of 20/20 has the following interesting observations about Michael Moore's claims concerning the state of Cuban healthcare in his "documentary" Sicko:
1. As we previously reported, Moore did not visit representative hospitals, but only elite institutions.
2. The United Nations report that Moore relies upon to support his claims of medical nirvana in Cuba did not gather any data. It simply repeated data given to it by the Cuban government itself, a government that is a crazed dictatorship with no checks on its power or accuracy.
3. Cuba's infant mortality rates are grossly understated because of the national practice of aborting sick fetuses before they are born (hence they never get to be infants and never get the chance to perish as such) and of classifying a fetus which perishes within a few hours of being born as never having been born at all.
4. Moore stated: "All the independent health organizations in the world, and even our own CIA, believes that the Cubans have a pretty good health system. And they do, in fact, live longer than we do." Stossel asked the CIA, and it stated that it never made such a conclusion about Cuban health care; it stated that its data shows Americans live significantly longer on average than Cubans.
5. When challenged with these facts by Stossel, Moore tried to change the subject: "Let's stick to Canada and Britain and this stuff, I think you should challenge me on these things, and I'll give you my answer."
The prosecution rests.
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