Yeah I have also heard about how good Cuba's medical system is. It might be apocryphal, but I have heard stories that South and Central American dictators back in the 1970s or 80s, who would give endless speeches attacking Castro and Cuba (as these dictators were backed by the US), when they got sick, they flew to Havana.

When Katrina hit, Castro offered to send a whole contingent of Cuban doctors to help New Orleans, but Bush said no.

Castro has his faults, which are clearly known to most US citizens, but he is hardly the evil dictator that we make him out to be, and Cuba is hardly the evil empire that our media and government often describe it as.

I know he is highly charged politically, but have you seen Michael Moore's movie "Sicko"? The section where they travel to Cuba made Carmela and I actually tear up. It also made us want to move to Canada, again, even though I do love the US.