Michael Moore Calls on Fred Thompson to Debate the Investigation of Moore's Trip to Cuba

Thompson Says He's Too Busy to Respond to Moore

By Bible Doc, published May 16, 2007
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Filmmaker, Michael Moore, whose latest project is a film, "Sicko," extolling the Cuban health care system, has called on former Tennessee senator and current "Law and Order" star, Fred Thompson, to debate him on the U. S. Treasury's investigation of Moore for his trip to Cuba. The Treasury department is alleging violations of an embargo act limiting travel to Cuba, claiming that Moore did not have permission to go to the communist nation. Moore had taken several 9-11 workers to Cuba for treatment of illnesses related to the World Trade Center cleanup.

Thompson, a potential Republican presidential candidate, accused Moore, on National Review Online, of simply repeating Fidel Castro's "story of free, high quality Cuban health care." Thompson called such reports a "myth." Another source reported that Cuban medical care has never recovered from the communist takeover of Cuba under Castro's leadership. Reports from Cuba say that many doctors fled almost immediately after Castro's victory and that doctors still leave the country. Castro, it is maintained, keeps some "show" clinics for elite officials, and it was probably one of those that Moore saw on his trip. In the meantime, many Cubans, it is said, suffer from malnutrition and do not have access to routine medical facilities and treatment.

Michael Moore Calls on Fred Thompson to Debate the Investigation of Moore's Trip to Cuba
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I wanna see evidence instead of just talk talk talk from either side of the political spectrum. We need to address problems like this rather than ignore them.

Posted on 06/30/2007 at 11:06:00 PM

 
This article is nothing but right-wing propaganda. There is no evidence at all to support these negative claims about Cuba's healthcare system; some right-wingers seem to think that if they say something enough times it will be true. Even the CIA World Factbook admits that Cuba's infant mortality rate is about the same as the U.S. and its life expectancy nearly as high. As for healthcare being "free", it is true that no healthcare is truly free, but it costs the government far less to provide it in Cuba because they don't have to pay for massive health insurance industry profits. Fred Thompson is just another bought politician and hypocrite.

Posted on 06/14/2007 at 11:06:00 AM

 
There is no such thing as "free health care." Someone is paying for it - usually the working class via taxes!

Posted on 05/18/2007 at 7:05:00 AM

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