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Originally Posted by billyb
You must have never been to Cuba before if you really believe that. Cuba has one of the worst health care systems in the world.
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That is not 100% true. I was hospitalized in Havana with phenomena for almost a week. Besides from the rooms being old, the staff was amazing and they were on me 24/7. Besides a few hospitals in Thailand, I have never been so taken care of in all my life. I don't remember the final exact bill but was only a few hundred bucks. Incredible care. Though I will admit the place was a bit worn down, but my care was incredible.
The bigger problem the Cubans have is not having access to proper medicine in the smaller towns. Cuba makes a lot of it's own but are always being nailed for creating generic drugs the same as Africa does. The USA and EU puts the fucking screws to both of those countries when it comes to pharmaceuticals and in turn maybe people go untreated and even die because of this greed. But for sure there is no shortage of well trained doctors in Cuba. Castro even offered them to the Katrina victims but the USA declined their offer. The United States is a pompous prick. We couldn't even deal with Katrina ourselves and we turned away some of the best doctors in the world over political bullshit that has been going on since JFK was in office. Pathetic.