“Where your steadfast support for a failed, flawed and inhumane ideology – thinly and disingenuously veiled under the guise of “helping the common people” – blinds you to the absolute reality.”

This is all so weird. (a) My post doesn’t express “steadfast support” for anything, including Cuban health care, nor any particular view at all of “the Cuban leadership” or “the Cuban system” (whatever that means). (b) Even if it did, it isn’t clear what bearing my views, or any particular view, on “the Cuban leadership” would have upon whether Dr. Ferrer misleads on the topic of Cuban health care. Fidel Castro could be an angel or a sonuvabitch and the health care system would remain whatever it is. (Feel free to respond to what I do think of Cuban health care–that is, to the topic of the post you are addressing–anytime.)

I’m writing a new post to address the rest of what you say here, due to the persistence, and danger, of the whole “you can’t say anything about Cuba since you don’t live in Cuba” tack.

This post doesnt counter anything Stefania stated or anything Dr. Ferrer avers. What it does is expose you for a complete and total useful idiot. Where your steadfast support for a failed, flawed and inhumane ideology – thinly and disingenuously veiled under the guise of “helping the common people” – blinds you to the absolute reality.

Of course, you could always prove Cuba’s system’s perfection – first hand – by relinquishing all your assets and belongings, flying down to your island paradse and make yourself a Cuban citizen. Live like a Cuban in Cuba and not a foreigner for a year or so, then come back and give us your report.

Being a vicarious communist is easy. Living under communism is a whole other animal.

“Dr. Ferrer worked for years in Cuban hospitals and lives in contact with dozens of patients…He certainly knows more than you about Cuban healthcare.” (1) Yes, he knows more than me about Cuban health care. Who said otherwise? Largely, my post doesn’t dispute his “knowledge” of the subject, but rather his interpretation and contextualization (or lack of it) of those points upon which we both agree. (2) Are you arguing that that anyone who “knows more than [me] about” a subject is incapable ever saying anything incorrect about it? Well, Fidel knows more than me about Cuban health care. Should I take his word for things? There are other Cuban doctors who sharply disagree with Ferrer. They too know more than I do. Are both parties right? Both wrong? This is getting messy quick. Let’s avoid this conundrum by looking for the right view instead of the most credentialed deliverer of a—some, any—view. We’ll avoid your elementary “ad homenim” fallacy to boot.

“Do you know that Darsi was recently victim of a brutal beating by the fascistic castroite militias? I guess u know why.”

Good for me that getting your ass whooped doesn’t make you retroactively right about the Cuban health care system. Miami expats beat up a guy from Pastors for Peace a few years ago. Did that make the Pastor right? If I whooped someone’s ass for thinking the earth was flat, it wouldn’t make the position correct. Might doesn’t make wrong anymore than it makes right.