Comments on: Cuba: Hospital Visit http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/11/cuba-hospital-visit/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:19:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Walter Lippmann http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/11/cuba-hospital-visit/comment-page-1/#comment-1530683 Walter Lippmann Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:16:38 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=52532#comment-1530683 While Cuba's economic problems do mean that family members have to go and help out in the hospital, at least no one asks Cubans for money or proof of insurance before they can be admitted to a hospital on the island. That's one of many areas we in the United States would learn a great deal about if we were free to visit Cuba. Today, Cuba is the only country on the planet for which people in the United States are obliged to request a permission slip from the federal government to go for a visit. This, we are told, is "freedom". While Cuba’s economic problems do mean that family members have to go and help out in the hospital, at least no one asks Cubans for money or proof of insurance before they can be admitted to a hospital on the island. That’s one of many areas we in the United States would learn a great deal about if we were free to visit Cuba.

Today, Cuba is the only country on the planet for which people in the United States are obliged to request a permission slip from the federal government to go for a visit. This, we are told, is “freedom”.

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