Why Are Canadians So Arrogant?

It isn't always communism that is the cause of their low standard of living. There are lots of non communist countries where people live in appalling conditions, and they are not all poor countries.

True. That wasn't what I asked though. Name a communist country where people live a nice prosperous standard of living. My point is, while great in theory, nobody poor, everybody happy and cared for by the Government; the system does not work and economically can't.

Americans ought to be envious!!

They are also one of the most healthy people in the world.

If you are going to has a heart attack on vacation Cuba is the best place in the world to have it. I know a gentleman who spent 5 weeks recuperating in Cuba after his heart attack and it cost him nothing. His wife staying in a near by residence for $45 a day. There was a guy from Surrey BC who had a stroke in Florida and it cost him a house and a condo.

If a child is in a Cuban hospital, one of the relatives can stay in the adjoining residence to be with them all the time.

Cuba has a fine health care system in spite of the US embargo which has made things extremely difficult for them.

Here's a web site on Cuban health care systems and how they have come.

Cuba is so wonderful of a country 100's of them take incredible risks every year to come to the USA just to let Americans know! Too funny.

Why did 10,000,000 Mexicans come to America? Is Mexico a communist state?

Cuban's are free to leave. Speak to the American government policies that force people to take the "wet foot-dry foot" risk.

The United States is currently in the midst of a new wave of Cuban immigration, underway since the early 1990s. However, contrary to popular perceptions — and notwithstanding the deep economic crisis in Cuba, the Cuban Adjustment Act, and the 1994 U.S.-Cuba immigration agreement — the volume of recent immigration from Cuba has been moderate by historical and comparative standards. Historically, the average number of Cuban immigrants entering the United States from

It is telling that Cuban government negotiators initially floated the figure of 100,000 visas per year, later reducing their demand to 50,000, and finally settling for 20,000. Thus, in the negotiations the U.S. government sought to minimize the number of visas it would agree to issue, which supports the notion of a fundamental change in attitude regarding Cuban immigration. The very fact that the United States would enter into an immigration agreement with a hostile government, offering it a unique immigration privilege in the form of a guarantee of 20,000 visas, suggests the depth of concern over prospects for a much larger and uncontrolled influx. ... Discussion and Conclusions

Despite the profound and prolonged economic crisis in Cuba and the endurance of the Cuban Adjustment Act, Cuban migration to the United States in the 1990s was relatively moderate in size by historical and comparative standards. Relative to the size of the sending country, there was a greater number of immigrants admitted to the United States in the 1990s from each of the other three large Caribbean nations — the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Jamaica — than from Cuba .......................

I notice the US wants to steal Cuban doctors trained by the people of Cuba. They are also after Cuban engineers and IT people. What's the matter USA? Can't train your own people?

"We urge the Cuban people to stay on the island, so that they may work for their freedom and a democratic society," Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Michael P. Jackson said. "We discourage anyone from risking their life in the open seas in order to travel to the United States."

But, he said, "if a Cuban chooses to reunite with their family in the United States, we support a safe, legal and orderly migration." ... The new policy seeks to:

Give Cuban doctors who have gone to other nations — and their families — more access to immigrating to the U.S. after undergoing background security checks. According to the documents, the Cuban government sends medical professionals to developing nations "as a foreign policy tool." The administration also is considering expanding this benefit to other professions.

There ya go again. Trying to make communism look better by pointing out another repressive corrupt government.

Cubans are free to leave at will? Hardly. I agree. The wet/dry foot thing is absurd. Shouldn't allow illegal immigration period. Same as most countries.

Certainly those 45 million plus Americans with no health care and 50 million with very limited health care. And, of course, the other 185 million who have to put up with Bush for President along with his divisive and destructive policies that have caused the misery index for Americans and people around the world to increase substantially.

Penny

So Mexico, a democracy is a repressive corrupt country? The US is heading down that route.

They just have to apply to the US for a visa. It's all up the US. The Cuban's in America are trying to pressure the government to allow more.

Get it changed.

Too bad thats a myth spread for political reasons. The USA does have socialized healthcare for millions.

I wish politicians would enforce current immigration laws. Unfortunatly both Reps. and Dems don't want to do a dang thing for fear of reprisals at the ballot box.

I'm of the understanding that the majority of Americans want strengthened immigration laws and it is the politicians who are stalling.

Medicare for the old and Medicaid for the very poor have their problems. .

" Approximately 46 million Americans, or 15.7 percent of the population, were without health insurance in 2004 (the latest government data available)."

Many of these people are the working poor who often have two or three jobs. They have no access to Medicaid -- which is the poor man's health care . Nor do the 50 million under insured.

Half of all bankruptcies in the US are because of unpaid medical bills.

Penny

Your link fails to include those people covered by state sponsered healthcare. Medicaid is a state/federal program. You also fail to note the availability of emergency care, county healthcare, student healthcare and much more. The numbers of uninsured fail to subtract out those covered by other means. They are very misleading. Especially to somone who doesn't even live here.