Cuba’s health care alternative http://www.greenleft.org.au/2010/831/42754

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, spruiking his plans to revamp Australia’s ailing health care system, was told by Queanbeyan Doctor Jeannie Ellis, who has spent some time in Cuba, that he should look to the Caribbean island for ideas on how to develop a decent public health system. 

Rudd replied: “You’re the first one to advocate the Cuban healthcare system to me.” It is understandable that most Australians don’t know much about Cuba’s remarkable achievements in health. The corporate media says little about Cuba that is not full of malice. Indeed, the same corporate monopolies that rail against socialist Cuba have campaigned quite effectively against a decent public health system for the richest country on Earth — the United States.