O.T. FREE Healthcare, Castro-style

Poor cubanos. Living in such squalor in paradise. :( If I believed in hell, I would believe there was special one for dictators like Castro.

John
 
Interesting.

One of my colleagues recently returned from a visit to Cuba. She went with a group of health care workers. She was impressed with the quality of care provided with limited resources. She (and her photos) left a different impression. She is no fool.

I'll withhold judgment. Obviously, various people have various points of view they want to push.
 
If we would lift the ban on trade with Cuba maybe they would have money to upgrade their hospitals??

I have never understood why we forbid trade with Cuba, but we have basically sold all of our manufacturing jobs out to China who is also a communist state, represses dissent and has nuclear missles aimed at us. Why is trading with China good and Cuba bad??

"Despite Cuba's shortage of general goods and critical need for modern medical supplies, the island boasts one of the most successful health care systems in the world, with extremely low infant mortality rates, long length of life, and the lowest HIV rates in the Carribean. These successes are one of the reasons we want to observe first hand how the Cuban health care delivery systemfunctions.

Socio-economic development is typically measured by health indicators such as infant mortality and life expectancy at birth. However, in Cuba, a nation beset by severely limited resources and political tensions both internal and external, these health markers are essentially the same as those in the United States and other parts of the industrialized world. Cuba also boasts the highest rate of public health service in Latin America and has one of the highest physician-to-population ratios in the world. These achievements are remarkable for any developing country; yet these feats are even more extraordinary considering the context of a US embargo that's been in effect since 1961.

Since its access to traditional financial resources is seriously hindered by the US sanctions (which until recently included all food and medicine), Cuba has received little foreign financial or humanitarian aid to maintain the vitality of its national programs. Therein lies the paradox of Cuba's health care system: because Cuba has so few resources, prevention has become the only affordable means of keeping its population healthy.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~josephwd/Cuba/about.html
 
Its the Cuban lifestyle ,baby!
Who wouldnt love that ?
Sleep till 10
Work one hour
Have a HUGE lunch
Sleep three hours
Work one hour
Head down to the club
Drink, smoke, dance and talk about business until 2 am
Chase cute Latinas!

Exquisito!
 
DannyinJapan said:
Who wouldnt love that ?

Exquisito!
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Yeah man, Dan, when The Beard is dead we'll have to go over and check it out. I feel nothing but sympathy for those suffering tyranny, and the embargo doesn't seem to have put FC out of power yet. He was just on a list of one of the richest men in the world- really PO'd the guy. Good.

See you on Playa Varadero someday- rum & cokes on me!


Ad Astra

and yes, the Cuban girls are hotties- look at Cameron Diaz, for one.
 
Why trade with China and not with Cuba?

1) Primarily the large Cuban American population in Florida and elsewhere in the U.S. vehemently opposes anything that will prop up Castro - and they have a good reason to feel the way they do.

2) Cuba is 90 miles from the U.S. while China is thousands of miles away. Though most Americans no longer feel Cuba is a military threat, distance still makes a difference.

3) China-U.S. trade is very big and important for both countries.

Most people feel that Cuba will change once Fidel has passed on. Cuban Americans hope this is as soon as possible - many years ago would have been better.
 
This friend of mine was in Russia last year and fell on the ice and sustained a rather severe fracture. He checked into it and the hospital that catered to foreigners would have cost him like 1200, not much but he's a cheapskate.

So he went to a "russian" hospital. He said the standard of cleanliness there was not like a western hospital but wasn't terrible and what the heck it's a broken arm. They fixed him up, including an old plaster cast for 200 bucks! The arm healed ok too!

Recently on the radio there was a spot talking about medical tourisim primarily in India. People were leaving the US and having their surgeries done in India. Standards were as good as the US and some were doctors who had even practiced in the US and moved home.
 
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