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Ew a luggage handler? What makes them think they can earn money, the horrendous little urchins. Cuba.... Cuba... isn't that the country with the best healthcar
by seamyb88 7y ago
Ew a luggage handler? What makes them think they can earn money, the horrendous little urchins.
Cuba.... Cuba... isn't that the country with the best healthcare system in the world? Don't they send thousands of doctors to the USA on humanitarian missions, because the USA doesn't give healthcare to its people? [1].
Now, you'll laugh at this because of decades of anti-Cuban propaganda (the luggage handlers!), but your anecdote of a Cuban doctor dissatisfied is very cute in the face of what is actually the best healthcare system in the world.
Hard to believe that an industry runs better when a handful of individuals aren't a huge, profitting strain on its resources.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_medical_internationalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_medical_internationalism
- johnmulaney 7y agoSending lots of doctors out into the world doesn't mean that they're any good. Working for a good healthcare system doesn't imply good pay. Getting tips in dollars instead of castro monopoly money really helps your salary in Cuba.
- seamyb88 7y agoNo, but being recognised throughout the world for their quality does mean they're "any good". Your last comment tells me who I'm speaking to. Fly your eagle, man. Fly!
- vinceguidry 7y agoWere you referring to my comment?
- seamyb88 7y agoJohn's "Castro monopoly money" comment.
- vinceguidry 7y agoThere's nothing wrong with manual laborers making money, what's wrong is that doctors can't.
- seamyb88 7y agoBut they can.
- vinceguidry 7y agoIf doctors are running in droves from Cuba to be luggage handlers or car salesmen in the US, you don't see a problem with that? From the Wikipedia link you posted: > According to Luis Zuñiga, director of human rights for the Cuban American National Foundation, Cuban doctors are "slave workers" who labor for meager wages while bolstering Cuba's image as a donor nation and "the Cuban government exports these doctors as merchandise".[34] And the reason it's luggage handlers and not other kinds of laborers is because luggage handling specifically puts you in contact with wealthy foreigners whose seemingly small tips are big money in the local currency. In order to make any kind of real money in Cuba, you must find yourself in a position to interact with foreigners. The local economy will never provide that opportunity.
- seamyb88 7y agoI begrudgingly cited wikipedia, but there's enough in there to show, at the very least, that Cuba has a better healthcare system than the USA. Cuba is desperately poor, like most post-colonial countries. Despite this, Cuba has: [1] - a greater life expectancy than the usa. - more hospital beds per capita than the USA. - more than double the number of physicians per capita than the usa. The list goes on. Communism works in theory, but in practise the CIA spends trillions of dollars making sure it doesn't. And even then it puts them to shame. The only way Cuba's way of doing things, not their embargo-induced circumstances, is sub-par is if you toy with the fascist idea that not everybody deserves basic human rights like healthcare. BTW, this is across industries like healthcare, education etc. The war on Cuba is the same one waged on the poor in America. [1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Cuba/United-States/Health https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Cuba/Unite...
- badpun 7y ago> Cuba... isn't that the country with the best healthcare system in the world? I don't know. Is it?
- seamyb88 7y ago'tis yea.