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  • Cuba's Doctor Abuse

    02/25/2010 4:34:34 PM PST · by Kaslin · 15 replies · 347+ views
    Investors.com ^ | February 25, 2010 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Health Care: Remember Cuba's vaunted medical missionaries — those who treated the poor abroad for nothing, supposedly out of selfless motives? A lawsuit shows they were nothing but a communist slave racket. It ought to bear a few lessons for our own country as the role of doctors in the health care debate drags on. Back in 1963, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro launched a much-praised initiative to share Cuba's medical doctors with the poor around the world. The idea, of course, was to appear to be acting on higher motives than the profit-driven doctors in free societies. It was small...
  • South Korea insists it paid no ransom to Taliban

    09/01/2007 12:00:12 AM PDT · by jaredt112 · 5 replies · 907+ views
    Reuters ^ | 09/01/2007
    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's presidential office denied a Taliban claim on Saturday that it had paid a ransom of more than $20 million for the release of 19 Christian missionaries held hostage in Afghanistan. "We deny any payment for the release of South Korean hostages," said an official at the presidential Blue House.