Every Socialist should be forced to rely on socialized medicine.
This Saturday in Caracas, Danny Glover praised Maduro’s government for “advancing humanity through education, health, and other aspects that honor human kind.”
Venezuela is advancing all right with food riots, starvation and refugees trying to escape the country. It's facing a measles and TB outbreak. And there's no actual medicine.
Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela's Failing Hospitals - New York Times
"Hospital wards have become crucibles where the forces tearing Venezuela apart have converged. Gloves and soap have vanished from some hospitals. Often, cancer medicines are found only on the black market."
Venezuela's chronic shortages give rise to 'medical flea markets' - Reuters
"The local pharmaceutical association estimates at any given time, there is a shortage of around 85 percent of drugs."
Socialized medicine. Yes, it really will kill you.
“People are looking for anticonvulsants a lot recently,” said Antuam Lopez, 30, who sells medicine alongside vegetables, and said hospital employees usually provide him with the drugs.
Leftist President Nicolas Maduro says resellers are in league with a U.S.-led conspiracy to sabotage socialism and are to blame for medicine shortages.
And here's the end result of socialism. Patients fleeing to countries that actually have health care.
In a hospital near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, migrants fill beds with the wounds of the nation they left behind.
An 18-year-old woman rubbed her stomach. She fled Venezuela with her new born daughter when the wounds she suffered while giving birth became infected.
A young man hurt in a motorcycle crash needed antibiotic drugs for an infection.
A retiree with an enlarged foot arrived at the hospital after taking a 20-hour bus ride from Caracas. He went there because Venezuelan doctors told his family he needed the foot cut off — without antibiotics or drugs to control pain during the operation.
"If you want to sign, sign. But we are not responsible for the life of your father," said Teresa Tobar. She was repeating what the doctors told her when they handed over the papers for her father's operation.
Don't expect Danny Glover or Michael Moore to live this way. They just want to reduce us to this life of misery and despair.