Che Guevara

.bcn · Nov 1, 2005 at 8:30 PM

did you know that cubans have the one of the, if not highest literacy tests in all the world? they also have universal health care... they may be dirt poor but they do have health care and schooling

I guess you could call it suffereing, but isn't every country these days?

Bona Fide · Nov 1, 2005 at 8:36 PM

Originally posted by Bacon@Nov 1 2005, 09:30 PM
did you know that cubans have the one of the, if not highest literacy tests in all the world? they also have universal health care... they may be dirt poor but they do have health care and schooling

I guess you could call it suffereing, but isn't every country these days?
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I'm afraid your facts are skewed. The Top 3 educational systems in the world are Japan, Germany, and Switzerland. Also, Canada and Great Britain, among other countries, offer free healthcare. The only thing Cuba has going for them is that their doctors are among the finest in the world.

.bcn · Nov 1, 2005 at 9:13 PM

Actully, I think your facts are skewed,

Cuba has a wholly government-controlled system that consumes a large proportion of the nation's GDP. The system does work on a for profit basis in treating patients from abroad. Cuba attracts patients mostly from Latin America and Eastern Europe by offering care of comparable quality to a developed nation but at much lower prices. While the government system is free to all, patients frequently pay out of pocket for drugs that are in short supply in the public system.
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- Wikipedia, "Universal Health Care"

Public health
Main article: Public health in Cuba
WHO health statistics for Cuba
Source: WHO country page on Cuba Life expectancy at birth m/f: 75.0/79.0 (years)
Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f: 67.1/69.5 (years)
Child mortality m/f: 8/6 (per 1000)
Adult mortality m/f: 137/87 (per 1000)
Total health expenditure per capita: $236
Total health expenditure as % of GDP: 7.5
Castro has long made the promise of free, universal health care an important part of the case for his government. Cuba's healthcare system is widely regarded as one of the best in the developing world. Cuba has had good doctors for centuries such as Carlos Finlay, who determined how yellow fever was spread. The massive Havana hospital, "Calixto Garcia" as well as 72 others were operating well before 1959. [[17]], [[18]] However, like the rest of the Cuban economy, Cuban medical care has suffered from severe material shortages following the end of Soviet subsidies. Support from the Venezuelan government of Hugo Chavez has alleviated some of those problems. Today, Cuba has over 20,000 health workers in Venezuela, with over 5,000 more spread around the world in over 60 additional countries, as it views such missions an important part of its foreign policy. They offer medical services to 85,154,748 people; 34,700,000 in Latin America and the Caribbean and 50,400,000 in Africa and Asia. These health workers are not allowed to have their families travel with them, which some observers charge is to insure the workers will return and not defect. Like a number of countries, Cuba has developed a hospital system for health tourists, taking advantage of a combination of low labor costs, an educated work force, and the ability of such tourists to pay in much desired hard currency for their care. It is not open to regular Cuban citizens.

The country is now able to operate and provide services in all branches of ophthalmology to hundreds of thousands of patients. One hundred thousand Venezuelans will receive theses services this year, and until July 2005, 25,024 patients from said country, and a similar number of Cubans have been operated on. 15,000 citizens of the Caribbean community will receive this form of medical care between the second half of June 2005 and June 2006. Venezuela and Cuba have offered to provide another 100,000 Latin Americans with this service within the same period.
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- Wikipedia, "Cuba"

Education
Main article: Education in Cuba
The University of Havana, Cuba's oldest university, was founded in 1721. Historically, Cuba has had some of the highest rates of education and literacy in Latin America. [15] Illiteracy was first eradicated after the Cuban revolution.

In a 1998 study by UNESCO, Cuban third and fourth graders were better educated in basic language and mathematics skills than children in other Latin American countries that took part in the study, with the "test achievement of the lower half of students in Cuba is significantly better than the test achievement of the upper half of students in the countries that (fell) immediately behind Cuba" in the study group. [16]

All students regardless of age and gender wear school uniforms with the color denoting grade level.
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- Wikipedia, "Cuba"

They may not be perfect, but it is considered a *EDIT** 2nd World Country to some, since the trade embargo from the good ol' USA

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