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.
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