Liberty Alone

Statist socialists tell us its fantastic and a model of what we could do.

This conflicts with reports from actual Cuban patients who have to go through the system. Things like providing your own bedding and even drugs. Filthy wards, old equipment and worse.

I think the Cuban health system is like the Pyongyang metro (or pretty much anything else they let you see in NK). Visitors are only shown two stations which are spectacular and obviously meant to show the superiority of the North Korean political system. The other stations are thought to be just plain, small, concrete buildings with none of the splendour of the two shown for propaganda purposes.

The Cuban health system is probably like this. Outsiders are shown some carefully kept examples of the greatness of Cuban communist health care.
The difference is, many statist leftists are happy to swallow Cuban propaganda, but I doubt many would swallow North Korean propaganda.

I like this.

There appears to be a flourishing Samizdata* in Cuba. People trade information from the Internet using flash drives. The government’s attempts to strictly control Internet access means that there’s a flourishing black market in computers and internet connections along side informal networks trading data from the few moments of Internet access people can afford and get.

I hope this can expand and undermine the regime in Havana. Information and debate are the keys to freedom, if people can undermine government controls then it will hasten the decline of the dictatorship.

* term filched from the website, but it seems appropriate, its an electronic Samizdat in effect.