Rep. Pramila Jayapal stood up at the POLITICO Health Care Summit on Monday and told a room full of people that Cuba — communist, crumbling, blackout-prone Cuba — has a “remarkable public health system” with the “lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality, sort of the opposite of what the United States has.”

Sort of the opposite. Yeah, we’ll get to that in a second. Somebody hand this woman a brochure from a Cuban refugee center.

Jayapal wasn’t done, either. She told the audience that Cuba is beating America on “numerous measures, including cancer detection.” She waved around her credentials — “I worked on global health for 10 years before coming to Congress” — like that’s supposed to make us nod along while she praises a communist dictatorship’s hospital system.

Here’s what ten years of global health experience apparently didn’t teach her: Cuba’s own government — not Fox News, not the RNC, Cuba’s *own regime* — reported infant mortality at 8.2 per 1,000 live births and maternal mortality at 56.3 per 100,000. That maternal mortality number nearly doubled from 2023 to 2025. The system she called “remarkable” is literally getting worse by the year.

But sure. Remarkable.

This is the same congresswoman who just got back from a five-day vacation — sorry, “congressional delegation” — to Cuba. She came home and compared the U.S. embargo to “bombing the energy infrastructure.” Her exact words: “It’s like an act of war because we’re refusing to allow fuel to come in to power the generators to get medicines to people.”

So to recap: she flew to a communist island, toured whatever Potemkin hospital they rolled out for the visiting American politicians, and came back to tell us that Cuba’s healthcare collapse is actually America’s fault. Classic Squad logic. The communist system isn’t failing — we just aren’t subsidizing it hard enough.

And then — and this one’s a real gem — she told reporters that students from her state of Washington have gone to Cuba to study medicine and came back saying, “I wish I could go back and practice in a place where I don’t have to worry about private insurance companies.”

You know who else doesn’t have to worry about private insurance companies? People who don’t have medicine, electricity, or functioning hospital equipment. Problem solved!

We need to talk about what’s actually happening in Cuba right now, because Jayapal sure won’t. The island has been in an energy crisis for over a year. Rolling blackouts. Fuel shortages. Hospitals running on backup generators — when they have fuel for the generators. Cubans have been fleeing by the tens of thousands. They’re building rafts out of inner tubes and truck tires to cross shark-infested waters to get to Florida.

They’re not rafting across the Caribbean because the healthcare is “remarkable.” They’re running for their lives.

But Jayapal had one more thing to share at the summit. Her team apparently reviewed a poll showing 90% of Democratic voters support Medicare for All. She told the crowd: “You cannot be too left on health care.”

Can’t be too left on healthcare. She literally just pointed to Cuba — a communist country where the healthcare system is in freefall — as the model. And then said you can’t go too far left. That’s not a policy position. That’s a warning label.

This is what Democrats want for your country. They look at a system where pregnant women can’t get to the hospital because there’s no fuel for the ambulance, where the maternal death rate is skyrocketing, where doctors are fleeing to other countries because they can’t practice medicine without basic supplies — and they call it “remarkable.”

Steve Guest from the GOP rapid response team posted the clip and it’s been getting absolutely ratioed across the internet. Rightly so. When a sitting U.S. congresswoman endorses the healthcare system that people literally risk death to escape, the clip kind of speaks for itself.

Pop quiz for Rep. Jayapal: if Cuba’s system is so remarkable, why does the traffic only flow one direction? Why are Cubans piling onto anything that floats to get to Miami? Why aren’t Americans building rafts to get TO Havana for that sweet, sweet communist cancer detection?

We all know the answer. She knows the answer too. She just doesn’t care, because the Squad never met a communist regime they didn’t want to import to America.

Somebody buy this woman a one-way ticket to Havana. She can study their remarkable healthcare system up close — from the waiting room of a hospital with no air conditioning, no antibiotics, and no lights.