Michael Moore blasted for making film extolling Cuba's healthcare system

Michael Moore blasted for making film extolling Cuba's healthcare system

A Cuban-born author and activist dedicated to a free Cuba says it's absolutely outrageous that left-wing American filmmaker Michael Moore is making a documentary extolling the virtues of Cuba's health system. The controversial filmmaker is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing 9/11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his new healthcare documentary called Sicko.

The federal government says Moore may have violated the U.S. trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba. But author Humberto Fontova, who escaped the island nation in 1961, says he has more of a problem with Moore's ridiculous claims about the Cuban healthcare system.

"I still have relatives in Cuba," Fontova notes. "If Cuban healthcare was so fantastic," he says, "there would be no reason why we have to send my relatives aspirins every month."

Fontova, who recently published a book called Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, says Moore is motivated by the fact that Fidel Castro is one of the most anti-American dictators on the planet. Moore is blatantly anti-American and particularly anti-Cuban-American, the author contends.

"I cannot arrive at his motives in any other method," Fontova notes. He says Moore has "got something against Cuban Americans because we are the one so-called 'immigrant group' -- we're not immigrant; we're refugees, and we're overwhelmingly Republican, 82 percent -- and they have never been able to herd us into the liberal plantation, you see."

It is outrageous that Moore is making a documentary claiming Cuba's healthcare system is better than that in the United States, Fontova asserts. He says if Cuban healthcare was as great as Moore suggests, it would not be necessary for him to ship medication to his relatives still living there.