No, it won't be free any more, but right now their "free" health care and education systems are worth every penny it costs them. It wouldn't be that tough to give assistance as Cuba moved towards Democracy. Am I to understand that some fellow Mudcatters see Communism, forced child labor, internment camps for AIDS patients, no freedom of press, third-world health care, and an education system that only succeeds in stripping freewill and endoctrinating citizens to be a combined LESSER evil than self reliance and the occasional Blockbuster Video Store littering the landscape? In a perfect world, I'll take neither, but if I have to choose one or the other, I think I'll make it a Blockbuster night, and pass on the Communism. And I seriously doubt that rent and power bills are going to bankrupt an island country that could make hundreds of billions a year in tourism and premium cigar sales alone.