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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
Meanwhile this thread is full of the standard Cuban propaganda. Excellent free health care ect... 
My ex father in law was a devout atheist communist (WW2 Vet) and often was involved with raising money is Australia to "help" the Cuban people.
Supposedly this money was to help the poorest Cubans get decent medical help. That doesn't sound like and effective free system to me.
Why do people believe the crap they've been serving us for generations? |
Actually that one is true. Doctors per capita: Australia 3.9 US 2.4 Canada 2.1 Cuba 6.7 (2010 figures from The World Bank)
But . . . and it's a big but . . . they lack modern facilities & supplies. I visited a small clinic in Levisa when I did a 'suitcase filled with drugs' drop off 10 years ago. It was a busy place but housed in a decrepit building that we would have bulldozed 40 years ago. Cuba has sent more doctors to the Ebola outbreak this year than any other country in the world. What did the US send? Soldiers & money.
Fint . . . I just don't buy the hype. The Bay of Pigs incident of 1961 is taught in schools as a classic example of what goes wrong when
group think prevails. Nothing has changed.
Ian