A Clean Bill Of Health - Cuba

June 2006
Despite decades of crippling sanctions, Cuba has achieved the unthinkable. Its health care system rivals most Western countries and infant mortality rates are lower than those in America.

"There is no place in the world with such a system as we have in Cuba", raves one happy patient. Prevented from importing drugs by sanctions, Cuba was forced to make is own medicines. It now sells this technology to other countries, enabling revenues from the health sector to rival those generated by tourism. But it's the training for free of international medical students that's really marking Cuba's stamp on the region. "In ten years, we will have trained between 100,000 -- 150,000 students", boasts Dr Estevez. America claims gestures like this are a means of Cuba buying UN votes. But Cubans see their success as an act of defiance against America.

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[toeg1]

Ud tiene toda la razon, 130.

The hypocitical economic blockade by the US is demonstrating just how resourceful the Cubans really are. To have a better health care system than the US even under this blockade is nothing short of incredible. The US has 50 million uninsured, Cuba has ZERO.

[patman978]

LONG LIVE FIDEL

[rodolfitocarlos420]

@Dabayl so true

[Dabayl]

Incarcarated ppl In US have no good doctors, u gota wait for surgery for 12 months or so.. Liar, liar, liar.. What freedom do u want, Elaine. The freedom to set up Latino Kings and gangesterism.. The freedom to loot ppl's wealth.. The freedom to molest little children like Miami.. In America, no one can send his 12 years old girl to school by her self, is that freedom.? Cuba is the best country in the world and it will be Utopia state with out the embargo.

[elaine31347]

Incarcerated people in the U.S. have wonderful healthcare, but nevertheless, they are imprisoned...Same situation in Cuba. Sad to say, but if it takes special permission and lots of money in fees to leave a country even for a visit outside Cuba, the great healthcare system really has diminished meaning. Fidel promised healthcare but he did not promise FREEDOM for Cuba's citizens. Oh well...

[SpoonsForks]

@elaine31347 Cuba also likes 2 be communist though

[xxxdieselyyy2]

Free medicine and training students 4 free is not humanitarian? Man USA GOVT.....LOL.

[johammbass]

What a bullshit

[elaine31347]

@toeg1 I agree with you...It is a shameful situation that there is still not universal healthcare for all Americans.

[paul8kangas]

The life expectancy of people in Cuba is 89,

while life expectancy in the US is only 73.

Proof health care is better in Cuba.

Youtube: paul8kangas

[baronor2]

FYI i am almost eighty years old and will be having my dialysis at Havana Hospital three times a week at 300 us dollars a treatment. living in Canada a democratic socialist medicine country i will be totally re imbursed upon my return with no charge from my medical plan which covers everyone. I pay thirty dollars a month for full coverage and have received a bladder transplant a triple bypass and am on dialysis. Canadas is the best plan in north america the same coverage in miami? $300. lw

[baronor2]

the comments are so few now a days because this video is buried below the vitriol and hatred of the miami mafia and their brainwashed cohorts. i have been travelling to Cuba three to four times a year for the last thirty years. done construction, cut sugar cane and transported a ton of baseball equipment for the less enriched from the barrios of the Havana district. I am returning 2 jan to

havana and will be in a 3 dollar box seat in latino stadium between 3rd and home cheering Industriale.