Cuba's life expectancy from birth is 77.08 years (74.85 male, 79.43 female). In the US it's 78 years (75.15 male, 80.97 female). Close?
Maybe, BUT the Cubans have about 0 mortality from crack cocaine, because they can't afford drugs. They have about 0 mortality from drive-by shootings, because they can't have guns. And they have about 0 mortality from obesity because, with the exception of Fidel, they're all thin because the can't afford food.
And in any case, no matter how you slice it, 77 is still a smaller number than 78.
Too bad Mr. Moore went to Public Skrool, otherwise he'd know that.
Cuba’s 2004–2005 Comprehensive Childhood Study found 10.2% of children are overweight and 8.8% are obese.[4] Although lower than in other countries, obesity is becoming a major public health problem in Cuba.
http://www.medicc.org/publications/cuba_health_reports/007.php
HAVANA - Acknowledging Cuba has a nascent drug problem, the island’s government promised Friday to crack down on foreigners bringing illegal narcotics into the communist country
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y03/jan03/10e4.htm
Please don’t make things up. There is plenty to not like about communism and Cuba without having to make up statistics to support your case. Cuba has decent medical care for its people. They wouldn’t have such a high life expectancy if they didn’t. Some would say it is free. I personally believe it comes at a very high cost to the people who live there. I would not want to live under communist dictator, even if they could cure any disease.
If Michael Moore wants to make this movie about how great medical care is in Cuba, good for him. All we need to point out is that the reason they have such great medical care is because they live in a completely controlled communist environment, where doctors are numerous becuase they can’t leave to practice elsewhere. Medication can be provided by the government, because wages are all controlled by the government. No body is going to get paid too much...not in Cuba. Sure Cubans have great healthcare. They just aren’t free to come to the US and tell us about it.