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Do you have any data to backup your claim? For example Cuban healthcare/treatment/outcome is excellent based on its own research. Roche(Swiss) nor Merck ( Germa

Do you have any data to backup your claim? For example Cuban healthcare/treatment/outcome is excellent based on its own research. Roche(Swiss) nor Merck ( German, not related to US Merck) don't benefit much (if at all) from US subsidies.

ch4s3 4y ago
Cuba has developed a few drugs and exports doctors as chattel for foreign income but their actual healthcare is abysmal. They larger operate without antibiotics, pain killers, and at times clean water. They can’t provide 24h power to hospitals so most modern tech is pointless there. The notion that anything else is true is just Cuban propaganda. There are tons of accounts from NGOs and doctors who have defected.
mjewkes 4y ago
>Do you have any data to backup your claim? I would suggest The Great American Drug Deal, by Peter Kolchinsky. Also - https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html >For example Cuban healthcare/treatment/outcome is excellent based on its own research Cuba does not contribute substantially to global pharmaceutical research. >Roche(Swiss) nor Merck ( German, not related to US Merck) don't benefit much (if at all) from US subsidies. Roche makes 55% of its revenue from US drug sales (https://assets.cwp.roche.com/f/126832/x/db9d31e8a7/fb20e.pdf https://assets.cwp.roche.com/f/126832/x/db9d31e8a7/fb20e.pdf p22) EMD Serono (formerly Merck KgAA) is similar. These revenues are the topline driver of the drug development industry.
lr4444lr 4y ago
Cuba's data is pretty suspect. Too lazy to find it at the moment, but I recall reading that their cancer rates or deaths were some absurd fraction of what would be expected given smoking rates even compared with better developed countries. They also had some eye raising way of counting perinatal infant death that makes their infant mortality rates look a lot lower.

ch4s3 4y ago

Cuba has developed a few drugs and exports doctors as chattel for foreign income but their actual healthcare is abysmal. They larger operate without antibiotics, pain killers, and at times clean water. They can’t provide 24h power to hospitals so most modern tech is pointless there. The notion that anything else is true is just Cuban propaganda. There are tons of accounts from NGOs and doctors who have defected.

mjewkes 4y ago

>Do you have any data to backup your claim? I would suggest The Great American Drug Deal, by Peter Kolchinsky. Also - https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html >For example Cuban healthcare/treatment/outcome is excellent based on its own research Cuba does not contribute substantially to global pharmaceutical research. >Roche(Swiss) nor Merck ( German, not related to US Merck) don't benefit much (if at all) from US subsidies. Roche makes 55% of its revenue from US drug sales (https://assets.cwp.roche.com/f/126832/x/db9d31e8a7/fb20e.pdf https://assets.cwp.roche.com/f/126832/x/db9d31e8a7/fb20e.pdf p22) EMD Serono (formerly Merck KgAA) is similar. These revenues are the topline driver of the drug development industry.

lr4444lr 4y ago

Cuba's data is pretty suspect. Too lazy to find it at the moment, but I recall reading that their cancer rates or deaths were some absurd fraction of what would be expected given smoking rates even compared with better developed countries. They also had some eye raising way of counting perinatal infant death that makes their infant mortality rates look a lot lower.