"A full 99 percent of Cubans have no more experience with a hospital like the one featured in "Sicko" than Michael Moore has with a Soloflex."

Humberto, that sentence alone is worth the price of admission...

Humberto used Michael Moore and Soloflex in the same sentence!!! Now that is funny!

Good article. However, this part: "In all nations with high emigration rates, longevity rates skew high. This occurs because the birth is recorded but the death gets recorded in the nation migrated to. So it seems like fewer people die. Naturally, the opposite effect appears in nations with a large influx of immigrants. The death is recorded but the birth was recorded in the nation immigrated from."

...is just flat wrong. At best, it seems he's confusing mortality with longevity. An honest mistake.

At worst, and I hope this isn't the case, he's bought into the recent right wing meme of explaining away any negative stat found in the United States by attributing it to the influx of Third World immigrants.

Actually, considering that the Cuban government encourages women with complicated pregnancies to abort, and has a much more lax standard than the US for distinguishing between a stillbirth and a birth followed by a death, that lowers the infant mortality rate as reported.