Thread by @zei_squirrel

Luigi Mangione's manifesto refers to Michael Moore's Sicko documentary on the for-profit US healthcare system. In one part of it Moore takes abandoned 9/11 first responders to Cuba to get healthcare there, to show just how sick and depraved the US is by comparison:

another scene from the documentary. Moore explains how the universal Cuban healthcare system works, and goes to a pharmacy to get the lifesaving medicine needed by one of the 9/11 responders that costs 120 dollars in the US for only 5 cents there. She's completely shocked by it:

when the firefighters and paramedics in Havana heard that the 9/11 first responders were there, they invited them for a visit, as they wanted to honor them for their bravery and service in a moving display of international solidarity

when Michael Moore came out with his film exposing the horrific private healthcare system in the US, which leads to mass preventable deaths every year, CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Sanjay Gupta devoted an entire segment to attacking it with outright lies. Here is how Moore responded:

when his film was released the private healthcare and insurance industry launched an all-out war on Michael Moore. Here's a whistleblower revealing their smear campaign, which included digging up information about his personal life and setting up a plan to "push him off a cliff"

more on Cuba's healthcare which transcends its own borders, with Cuban doctors restoring the eyesight of countless across the world, in this thread: x.com/zei_squirrel/s…, and here's Castro on Cuba saving lives while the US brutally ends them:
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