Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat from Washington State who has never met a socialist policy she didn’t want to French kiss on national television, just praised Cuba’s “remarkable” public health system. Out loud. On purpose. In the year 2026.

Somebody should forward this to the Cubans currently building rafts out of old tires and prayer. They’d love to know their healthcare is remarkable — right before they risk drowning in the Florida Strait to get away from it.

This is the thing about congressional Democrats that never stops being amazing. They live in the wealthiest nation in human history, with access to the finest hospitals, the most advanced medical technology, and taxpayer-funded healthcare plans that would make a Fortune 500 CEO jealous. And they look at CUBA — a crumbling communist island where people literally flee on homemade boats — and say, “Now THAT’S a healthcare system.”

Jayapal called it “remarkable.” You know what else is remarkable? The fact that Cuban doctors make about $60 a month. The fact that Cuban hospitals routinely run out of basic antibiotics. The fact that patients are told to bring their own bed sheets — and sometimes their own syringes — when they check in for treatment.

Remarkable!

We should honestly turn Jayapal’s quote into a Cuban tourism ad. “Come for the remarkable healthcare. Stay because you literally can’t leave. Raft not included. Side effects may include: starvation, imprisonment, and being shot at by your own coast guard.”

(Someone in her communications office approved this statement, by the way. An actual adult human read the words “Cuba” and “remarkable healthcare” in the same sentence and hit send. These people vote on YOUR healthcare policy.)

Here’s what Jayapal and her Democratic Socialist buddies always do with Cuba. They cherry-pick one statistic — usually infant mortality or doctor-per-capita ratios — that the Cuban government self-reports with zero independent verification, and they wave it around like it’s proof that communism works. They completely ignore that the Cuban government controls every piece of data that comes off that island. It’s like asking North Korea to grade its own human rights record.

Oh, and those Cuban doctors Jayapal is so impressed by? The ones the regime loans out to other countries? They’re essentially slaves. Cuba sends doctors abroad and pockets most of their salary. Doctors who try to defect get their families punished back home. That’s the “remarkable” system she’s praising — state-sponsored medical labor trafficking.

But sure, Pramila. Remarkable.

Meanwhile, the Coast Guard keeps pulling desperate Cubans out of the ocean. Families with children. Elderly people. Men and women who would rather risk shark-infested waters on a pile of inner tubes than spend one more day in Jayapal’s healthcare paradise. Every single one of them is a living, breathing rebuttal to her nonsense.

You’d think — you’d THINK — that a sitting member of Congress would look at the refugee crisis and connect the dots. People don’t build rafts out of garbage and float across 90 miles of open ocean to escape a country with “remarkable” anything. They do that when the situation is so desperate that drowning seems like an upgrade.

But connecting dots isn’t really the Democratic Party’s thing. Their thing is praising failed communist states from the comfort of their congressional offices while pushing the exact same policies here at home. Single-payer healthcare. Government-run everything. The same “remarkable” system that has Cubans performing surgery by flashlight.

This is who these people are. They don’t want to fix American healthcare. They want to replace it with something the government controls completely — and if you complain about the results, well, you can always build a raft.

Jayapal makes $174,000 a year. She has access to the best doctors in Washington, D.C. She will never, ever experience Cuban healthcare. And that’s exactly why she can call it remarkable — because she’ll never have to survive it.

The Cubans floating toward Miami right now? They already know what remarkable looks like. That’s why they left.