Posted on 09/29/2017 3:09:47 PM PDT by Incorrigible
RIO DE JANEIRO - In a rare act of collective defiance, scores of Cuban doctors working overseas to make money for their families and their country are suing to break ranks with the Cuban government, demanding to be released from what one judge called a "form of slave labor."
Thousands of Cuban doctors work abroad under contracts with the Cuban authorities. Countries like Brazil pay the island's Communist government millions of dollars every month to provide the medical services, effectively making the doctors Cuba's most valuable export.
But the doctors get a small cut of that money, and a growing number of them in Brazil have begun to rebel...
..."When you leave Cuba for the first time, you discover many things that you had been blind to," said Yaili Jimenez Gutierrez, one of the doctors who filed suit. "There comes a time when you get tired of being a slave."...
...The legal challenges are all the more important because the doctors have lost a common backup plan: going to the United States... President Barack Obama in January ended the program, which had allowed Cuban doctors stationed in other countries to get permanent residency visas for the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Slave labor in a communist country?? Can’t be....it’s only happened here in the US and to listen to some it continues. /sarc
Rather edgy subject matter for NYT.
The New York Times must be really torn over this.
Slavery by communists. It’s like finding out
your mom pimps out girls, and never cut you in.
But.. but all the Hollywood lefties say that Cuba has THE BEST health care in the world! It’s free ‘n’ everybody gets it ‘n’ nobody ever gets sick ‘n’ dies or nuthin’. Michael Moore said so too. He said Cuba’s got the best health care. And you now Michael Moore never lies.
>> Can’t be....it’s only happened here in the US and to listen to some it continues.<<
10 million dollars a year to play a game — SLAVERY I TELLS YA!
But I thought government run healthcare was so...wonderful...
Paging Michael Moore and Colin Kaepernick...
I guess Sean Penn was wrong.
When you have no taxpayers to fleece, “free universal healthcare” means enslaved doctors.
My skeptical side says these doctors still don’t “get it” insofar as communism vs free market econ is concerned. It’s just that their particular oxen got gored.
Doctor heel thyself.
Socialism is by definition and historical fact: Slavery.
As soon as a socialist government runs out of money, they tell the workers, soldiers etc. that they have to keep working anyway.
Yup. CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC have been in arms over this for months.
LOL! I kid me sometimes. They could care less. All they want coming to the US are farm workers.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
The Cuban DR's are simply seeking what God gave us all and not the Cuban government.
Not only is it free and best in the world, the doctors are the highest paid in the world, happiest, and most satisfied with their profession of all professional class people the world over. Don’t ever let anybody tell you otherwise.
For the doctors whose backup plan was to come to the US, they evidently have nothing binding them to Cuba other than the contract. Why not stop remitting the money to Cuba?
Apparently the Brazilian government is paying Cuba for these doctors, though. Is the Brazilian government indulging in slavery by proxy? And would they go after a doctor who jumped the plantation?
“Free” healthcare requires a slave class of healthcare workers.
It can’t work any other way.
I must be asleep and dreaming this.
This can’t be a NySlimes article.
This has to be one of John Semmens’ SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIREs posing as a Ny Slimes article.
But Michael Moore told us this was the medical system we need to be emulating?
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