They stand in a class of their own, as everyone knows.

From your excellent article:

The Red Cross, which is trying to tackle Ebola in Sierra Leone, has said the scale of the outbreak is so bad that it is having to retrieve more than 100 corpses a day.

"We cannot see our brothers from Africa in difficult times and remain there with our arms folded," the Cuban Ambassador to Liberia, Jorge Lefebre Nicolas, told Reuters news agency.

Don't know if you saw Sicko but Michael Moore took some of the 9/11 First Responders to Cuba for treatment because this country would not take care of their health needs. We called them HEROES, which they were, for 'publicity purposes', then let them die, and many have, after the cameras went away.

When they went to Cuba they were treated with kindness and humanity to the point where some became very emotional, unused to being treated like human beings in our so-called HC system.

And petty as we are, when Cuba offered to send help here after 9/11, the US turned them down. Unbelievable.

The First Responders met with the Cuban Fire Dept in the Documentary. It was a moving moment, with the Cubans offering condolences for the losses on 9/11 and saying they wished they could have helped.

Good for Cuba, I hope their doctors and nurses all remain safe.

They were snubbed, kicked aside, ignored.

Some of Cuba's finest musicians were at the same time in Los Angeles to attend the CBS Latin Grammys, which was cancelled, since it was scheduled for 9/11. Instead of flying home immediately, all the musicians went where they could give their blood to send to New York, before returning to Cuba.

No doubt you also remember Cuba had organized and gathered a large auditorium full of doctors and other medical people to send to New Orleans to help after the hurricane, and they were, once again, kicked to the curb, by _{George W. Bush.}

Didn't see Michael Moore's Sick yet, but I've heard it's available online now. Your comments encourage me to look it up. I would love to see it.

Michael Moore made a point which should have been heard around the world, that the US refused to help this country's heroic, selfless emergency personnel after they gave their entire attention and energy to helping others, at total risk of their own lives. They were betrayed by this country's government, whereas in civilized countries there wouldn't have been any question about getting these heroic people everything they needed to mend themselves as much as possible.

Thanks for the reference to that film. Thank goodness for Michael Moore and other courageous people of conscience.

fact that the Private Health Ins corps spent millions trying to discredit Moore and the film BEFORE it came out, was enough to make me want to see what they were trying to hide.

Whistle Blower Wendell Potter who had worked on the 'mission' to smear Moore, revealed the information that they did in fact spend millions trying to suppress the movie. He made a public apology to MM for his role in the attempt.

Every American should see that film. I blows away the lies, 'we have the best HC system in the world and Europe and Canada are 'commies' etc etc.

That is why they were so worried about it. Too much truth.

It is a DISGRACE the way those First Responders have been allowed to suffer and die. When they could no longer work they lost their coverage and their government which USED their heroic efforts to their advantage refused to take care of them. Shameful.

I am familiar with the great work Cuban doctors do all over the world.

Btw, I believe Sicko is available online.

Cuba hosts ‘Ebola summit’ amid cooperation with U.S. to fight outbreak
Agence France-Presse
21 Oct 2014 at 22:34 ET

he United States welcomed Tuesday the chance to cooperate with its old Cold War rival Cuba in the fight against Ebola, a State Department source told AFP.

“We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with Cuba to confront the Ebola outbreak. Cuba is making significant contributions by sending hundreds of health workers to Africa,” the source told AFP.

Secretary of State John Kerry has urged all countries to join the fight against the outbreak, which has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa and stoked fears it could spread beyond thethree worst-hit countries and become a global threat.

“In that spirit, the U.S. Department of State is communicating with all members of the international community, including Cuba, involved in this global effort through multilateral channels such as the World Health Organization, as well as diplomatic briefings,” the source said.

In Havana on Monday, Cuban President Raul Castro opened the Ebola summit — the first of its kind in Latin America — warning his fellow leaders that “a terrible epidemic is spreading among our brother peoples in Africa and threatens us all.”

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/cuba-hosts-ebola-summit-amid-cooperation-with-u-s-to-fight-outbreak/

matters of Health Care. Glad to see that maybe this time the US isn't going to bite off its nose to spite its face and refuse help from a country that is way ahead of is many HC areas.