{"id":624696,"date":"2026-04-23T01:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624696\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:10:08","slug":"opinion-pramila-jayapals-flawed-diagnosis-of-cuban-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624696\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Pramila Jayapal\u2019s flawed diagnosis of Cuban health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NXPXXK65X5G67CMO6TY3RYR5UA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cCuba has a remarkable public health system,\u201d Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/video\/2026\/04\/21\/rep-pramila-jayapal-talks-medicare-for-all-and-cubas-health-system-2019438\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/video\/2026\/04\/21\/rep-pramila-jayapal-talks-medicare-for-all-and-cubas-health-system-2019438\">said in an interview on Tuesday<\/a>. What\u2019s more remarkable is how American leftists continue to venerate communist Cuba.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DKOPP77KVVC3LDKJMTK3ZBADFI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Jayapal said Cuba has the \u201clowest infant mortality, maternal mortality, sort of the opposite of what the United States has.\u201d The reporter conducting the interview interjected that Cuba has a higher life expectancy, with which Jayapal agreed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCuba has a remarkable public health system,\u201d Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) said in an interview on Tuesday. What\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-624696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}