Why is this man the president?

[Bazzlad]

Which isn't necessarily the only or best measure of quality healthcare (it's not much use if none of them have a scalpel), but then you're bringing up another example of socialised healthcare doing a good job, so I guess you're attempting to agree?

I'm not arguing health care - I'm arguing funding and lack of improvements due to politics.

I bought up Cuba because I thought it widely known as having the world's best health care system, and somebody said France did.

[Bazzlad]

Oh.
I may have been wrong...

In 2006, BBC flagship news programme Newsnight featured Cuba's Healthcare system as part of a series identifying "the world's best public services". The report noted that "Thanks chiefly to the American economic blockade, but partly also to the web of strange rules and regulations that constrict Cuban life, the economy is in a terrible mess: national income per head is miniscule, and resources are amazingly tight. Healthcare, however, is a top national priority" The report stated that life expectancy and infant mortality rates are pretty much the same as the USA's. Its doctor-to-patient ratios stand comparison to any country in Western Europe. Its annual total health spend per head, however, comes in at $251; just over a tenth of the UK's. The report concluded that the population's admirable health is one of the key reasons why Castro is still in power.

[Byatt]

Cuba Cuba Cuba

Can we just label Cuba as really bloody strange?

[Nick]

Don't hear them complaining about it, do you?

That's right... you don't.

Oh hang on... you didn't hear much from Russians who chose to speak out against their leaders... or Iraqis doing the same.

[Bazzlad]

That was my joke.

D'oh!

[IBM]

They don't have a smiley to convey that level of wit, unfortunately.

Is Winston Churchill a mass murderer? (Obviously not comparing the two) but what makes GWB a mass murderer persay? I thought he'd actually have to kill someone.

Although I don't think GWB is a mass murderer, I think that people like Hitler and Pol Pot are, and I don't know if they actually killed lots of people personally (although maybe they did)....

Reminds me of that Eddie Izzard sketch. 'You've killed two million people? You must be busy! Schedule reads, get up, death, death, death, breakfast, death death, death death, lunch, death, death, death, afternoon tea, death, death, death....'