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Sunday, August 23, 2009
The United States came under criticism recently from Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro for being willing to spend billions on its high-tech military but finding it difficult to approve healthcare reform that would protect its poor people.
Castro made this remark in a commentary published on a state-run Internet site. He wrote that huge military budgets are approved easily by the US Congress but US President Barack Obama is struggling to convince federal lawmakers to pass a bill on healthcare reform.
Obama's health care plan which is aimed at making healthcare less expensive and more broadly available came under fire in the Congress, primarily from Republicans who argue, among other things, that it is a step toward socialism.
Castro used the situation of the free health clinic in Los Angeles to illustrate his argument. The clinic attracted 8,000 patients, some coming from hundreds of miles away because they said they could not afford to go to a doctor or dentist.
The Cuban government prides itself on providing free healthcare to all Cubans.
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