{"id":10041,"date":"2014-02-26T19:46:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-02-26T19:46:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:46:24","slug":"rubio_destroys_harkin_on_cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/02\/26\/rubio_destroys_harkin_on_cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Destroys Harkin on Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019m kind of torn here \u2019cause I\u2019ve really got some interesting callers on and I\u2019ve gotta do this Marco Rubio response to Tom Harkin because he just nails Harkin, and this is classic. So I\u2019m gonna try to get a lot of stuff done here. Let\u2019s start with Harkin. This was late Monday afternoon on the Senate floor. Harkin just got back from Cuba, and he\u2019s singing their praises.<\/p>\n

HARKIN: When a woman gets pregnant in Cuba, she gets visited immediately, well, soon as they know about it. She gets visited by a nurse. She gets visited by health officials who put her on a better diet, make sure she doesn\u2019t smoke, provide supportive services for her during her pregnancy, make sure that there\u2019s someone there for the birth, and that child is — everything is just covered from the earliest time of pregnancy through early childhood.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a paradise, why, it\u2019s an absolute paradise. Do you believe that excrement? When they find out that a woman is pregnant in Cuba — how often do they find out? When they find out she gets visited immediately. Well, as soon as they know about it, she gets visited by a nurse, a health official who puts her on a better diet. No way do we care as much as the Cubans do, see. They do it right. We don\u2019t care at all. We\u2019re insensitive. We don\u2019t have any prenatal care, postnatal care. We don\u2019t have any kind of care. But the Cubans, they do it right because in Cuba, medicine is a public government service.<\/p>\n

HARKIN: One of the key features of what Cuba has done is they have made the practice of medicine a public service, a public service, in all aspects, whether you\u2019re a doctor or a surgeon or a nurse or various other health practitioners. It is a public service. The life span is now even longer than ours in the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just not true. I mean, this is just incredible. Cuba is a hellhole. It is so backward the infrastructure is falling apart. The newest car you can get is a \u201957 Chevy. Well, maybe some of the limousines for the mob that\u2019s going back in there to set up casinos now at some of the hotels. But, I mean, this is just — did you hear that medicine is a public service. Yes, there\u2019s no profit in it. It\u2019s just people who care. Government people who care, from the surgeons to the nurses, to various other health practitioners, it\u2019s just people who care, it\u2019s a public service. And you know what? You know what? Everything is free in Cuba.<\/p>\n

HARKIN: Every one of these students are going to medical school, and you know what it costs them? Zero. Not one cent. The 108 students that are there, pay nothing. We have over 90 graduates of this school back here in America right now. And that\u2019s another thing, whenever we traveled all over Cuba, I went to the clinics, and I talked to health people, I\u2019d always ask them, “What did it cost you to go to the school? Do you have student debt?” No. Medical school is free. There is no cost to going to medical school. None whatsoever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a paradise. It\u2019s a literal paradise. The people involved in health care don\u2019t get paid because it\u2019s a public service. They just care. The students don\u2019t get paid because it doesn\u2019t cost them to become doctors and nurses. There is no debt. Everybody just does for everybody else because they care. Everything is public service, and everything is free, and they\u2019re living longer. Well, Marco Rubio was watching this in his office, and he literally charged to the Senate floor and rebutted this.<\/p>\n