[news] Havana has the Last Laugh

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The Cuban success story comes despite a total absence of the free market in the Cuban healthcare system. The US's infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000 live births - just the same as in Cuba (but double that in the US if you’re Black)...Cuban health practitioners are some of the most highly skilled in the world...and outstrip the West in certain cancer treatments. This is all despite Cuban healthcare expenditure being amongst the lowest in the world, less than 1/25 of that spent in America.

  


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