The New York Times does some actual reporting on the health care system in Cuba. This doesn’t mean that the current U.S. system is at all tolerable. We need a universal system, and now. (Regular Swampland readers know that I favor the individual mandate, community rated system that Senator Ron Wyden has proposed.) But the Times does expose Michael Moore’s stunt for what it was: propaganda.
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