How Cubans have as good, if not better healthcare, for $813 a year

[kpitcher]

An interesting article on Cuban health care. Appears they focus on the total health of a person and avoid the expensive sending to specialists for everything. Discussions we've heard before but this lays it out nicely, even if the article skews more Bernie than fix the corporatism in healthcare.


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/h...th-of-the-cost

Cuba has long had a nearly identical life expectancy to the United States, despite widespread poverty. The humanitarian-physician Paul Farmer notes in his book Pathologies of Power that there’s a saying in Cuba: “We live like poor people, but we die like rich people.” Farmer also notes that the rate of infant mortality in Cuba has been lower than in the Boston neighborhood of his own prestigious hospital, Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s.

All of this despite Cuba spending just $813 per person annually on health care compared with America’s $9,403.

[Anti Federalist]

“We live like poor people, but we die like rich people.”

Starvation diets tend to be good for your health.

[Krugminator2]

That article has one explanation for the lower health care costs. Here is maybe a better/correct explanation.

Average annual doctor income United States- $189,000

Average annual doctor income in Cuba - $804

Yes. You read that correctly. Doctors are paid $67 a month. They are slaves. https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/08/...rs-meager-pay/ https://www.foxnews.com/world/cuba-h...-as-67-a-month

[oyarde]

Starvation diets tend to be good for your health.

Pretty much what I was thinking .

[Zippyjuan]

That article has one explanation for the lower health care costs. Here is maybe a better/correct explanation.

Average annual doctor income United States- $189,000

Average annual doctor income in Cuba - $804

Yes. You read that correctly. Doctors are paid $67 a month. They are slaves. https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/08/...rs-meager-pay/ https://www.foxnews.com/world/cuba-h...-as-67-a-month

They do have the most doctors per capita in the world- and some of the best trained. $67 a month in the US is nothing but since everything is subsidized you can live on it in Cuba.

[Swordsmyth]

They do have the most doctors per capita in the world- and some of the best trained. $67 a month in the US is nothing but since everything is subsidized you can live on it in Cuba.

All are equal in the dirt.

African slaves could live on what their masters provided as well, a dead slave is of no use.

[jkr]

Pretty much what I was thinking .

AS LONG AS IT WRKS

[Krugminator2]

They do have the most doctors per capita in the world- and some of the best trained. $67 a month in the US is nothing but since everything is subsidized you can live on it in Cuba.

Sure. You can live on it in the same sense that slaves in the South lived. Cuban doctors seem not so happy with the situation. I guess slavery is one way to control costs.

Cuba’s Slave Trade in Doctors https://www.wsj.com/articles/mary-og...ors-1415573715


Cuban Doctors Say They Are Treated Like Slaves https://fee.org/articles/cuban-docto...d-like-slaves/



Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/w...rs-revolt.html