[NYTr] US Physicians Bare Stossel's, ABC's Lies on Cuba

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Background articles:

You can reach all of them from this link: http://tinyurl.com/2xxzo5

FAIR Goes after Stossel's 20/20 Lies on Healthcare, Cuba, Sicko 9/25
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070924/068991.html

What Has John Stossel Been Smoking?  9/22
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070917/068940.html

Gail Reed: We Deserve Better than ABC's "20/20" on Cuban Health Care 9/15
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070910/068467.html


Prensa Latina, Havana
http://www.plenglish.com

US Physicians Bare ABC Lies on Cuba

Washington, Oct 20 (Prensa Latina) A prestigious association of US
physicians demanded that ABC News rectify falsehoods it transmitted
about public health in Cuba and defended the program of health
attention on the Island.

In a letter sent to David Westin, ABC News president, a dozen eminent
US physicians criticized the biased documentary by John Stossel "Sick
in the US, healthy in Cuba?" They wrote that as doctors involved in
teaching they have traveled to Cuba often and strongly object to the
information in the Stossel report broadcast on the 20/20 program and
they were horrified by the falsities reported.

They added in the text that in Cuba medical assistance manages to do
much with little and obtains results that are comparable to indicators
in the United States at a fraction of the cost.

Furthermore, a Gallup poll revealed that 96 percent of Cubans declared
that they always have access to medical assistance regardless of their
economic situation.

The letter adds that the fundamental lesson of Cuban medical experience
is to reach out to the poorest or distant societies or communities and
provide access.

The ABC sham lists as its only source of information the Central
Intelligence Agency, which by the way, only differs with the Cuban
government on life expectancy by less than a year.

They added that they have witnessed competent gathering of health
statistics in Cuba and are directly aware of the work of the Public
Health Ministry and the Analysis and Tendencies Unit, the note adds.

The document was signed by Peter Bourne, from Oxford, Alfred Brann,
professor of Pediatrics, Harry Douglas, from California, Dabney Evans,
Master in Public Health, and Jean Handy, doctor in philosophy of North
Carolina, among other renowned professors.

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