Education and health care for free in Cuba?

Authors:
José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

Saying that education and health care are free in Cuba does not consider all the real costs that a Cuban citizen has to pay for living in the Castrist political system, let's see:

In Cuba citizens receive government health and education services without paying cash for it -at least theoretically- but the regime does not recognize them any labor, political, or economic rights. Moreover the State's leadership is privatized for the exclusive use of Fidel Castro, or his relatives.

This is something similar to what happens in slavery, could we say that the slave has social security for free based on the fact that the slaveholder bears the full burden of health and housing costs for his servant? Obviously not, because the slave is obliged to pay with his live and rights for everything he get.

Ergo, each hour of class or health care received by a Cuban has a cost, but it is a veiled and non-negotiable transaction, where the Castrist regime offers these services to the people but ignores their human rights.

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