U.S. Sabotages Cuba’s Hospitals — Then Calls Universal Healthcare a Failure

"You know what? In Cuba, they have universal healthcare. Excuse my language. It sucks. It doesn't work. The hospitals don't have any medicine," said Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL).

"The hospitals are in shambles. And so yeah, it's free, but you get what you pay for. And by the way, you know what you have to pay in order to get that universal healthcare, which really is horrible?" Giménez said.

"You pay with your freedom. Your freedom. And that's why my parents brought me here," he added.

"The blockade we are currently experiencing affects imports of medications and medical supplies, surgeries, ultrasounds, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures," said Dr. Dayana Couto Núñez, president of the Cuban Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

"We have cut off energy, we've cut off fuel so they could not run their diagnostic machines," said Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM).

"Maybe the most heartbreaking piece of this was going to the maternity hospital and going into the neonatal intensive care unit and seeing the low birth, low birth weight babies, the premature babies who are in incubators and because of the electricity shortages," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

"They can't work because of the lack of fuel. And you see, pregnant women have to take the staircase because the elevators don't have the necessary electricity," said Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-TX).

"Our women and kids are not to blame. They need to be treated, given medical attention and quality resources, technologies, medicines. They aren't to blame for U.S. policies and the damage felt by the Cuban people," Couto Núñez concluded.