- 17 Apr 2021 19:11
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We've already dealt with infant mortality. Other Latin American countries saw similar decreases, by the way.
As for healthcare, it's also not clear that Cuban healthcare is world-class or comparable to countries with good systems. If you give me free shit, you're still giving me shit.
And the way for countries not to give shit, is economic growth and Cuba failed to deliver on that.
late wrote:"But there are also some much more positive sides to the Cuban experience. One of these—its health care system—was on display when I visited the country in mid-November with a delegation of American health care experts led by Michael Leavitt, the former Republican governor of Utah and secretary of health and human services under President George W. Bush. When it comes to health care, Cuba is a success story with few parallels.
Since its 1959 revolution, Cuba’s infant mortality rate has fallen from 37.3 to 4.3 per 1000 live births—a rate equivalent to Australia’s and lower than the United States’ (5.. From 1970 to 2016 life expectancy increased from 70.04 to 78.7 years"
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2016/fidel-castros-health-care-legacy
"Prior to the revolution, the majority of the Cuban population was under the oppression of the Batista military dictatorship. There was no free government-funded health program, and the health services were essentially conformed according to social class. The population of Cuba consisted of a proportionately small wealthy class who owned and controlled the bulk of Cuban wealth"
https://www.radford.edu/~junnever/law/cuba.htm
Things got better for the vast majority under Castro. You obviously didn't look at Guatamala, which was your basic hell hole (and it got that way thanks to a CIA coup).
You also didn't acknowledge my point that we would have had a lot more influence if we hadn't let the corrupt Cubans in Miami buy our foreign policy.
This is ancient history, but I remember how the people of Cuba were supposed to rise up when we invaded at the Bay of Pigs. They didn't.
But all that stuff happened in the real world.
We've already dealt with infant mortality. Other Latin American countries saw similar decreases, by the way.
As for healthcare, it's also not clear that Cuban healthcare is world-class or comparable to countries with good systems. If you give me free shit, you're still giving me shit.
And the way for countries not to give shit, is economic growth and Cuba failed to deliver on that.