Cuba's Deadly Cold Snap and the Promise of Government-Run Health Care

Cuba's Deadly Cold Snap and the Promise of Government-Run Health Care

The Washington Post has an article out today, delivers some sad news out of Cuba:

HAVANA -- Twenty-six patients at Cuba's largest hospital for the mentally ill died this week during a cold snap, the government said Friday.

Human rights leaders cited negligence and a lack of resources as factors in the deaths, and the Health Ministry launched an investigation that it said could lead to criminal proceedings.

Very tragic, indeed.  However, the article continues:

Communist Cuba provides free health care to all its citizens but, though the...