We’ve had the same issue in France. During the pandemic health professionals were hailed as heroes, deservedly so. But once it was over, they started asking for better conditions, and more money towards public health infrastructure. They got shut down and belittled pretty quickly.
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Turns out that a single payer, socialised, universal healthcare system is the cheapest and most efficient path to quality healthcare.
All it took was most of the world proving that for decades, yet still a significant portion of the human population are dumb enough to believe a privatised profit model could improve things.
For the immensely wealthy it’s at least self serving. It’s the poor people who parrot that shit who I worry about.
Are they just hiring Cuban physicians for pennies?
Communism is incredibly helpful if you are a capitalist and want to pay slave wages to its refugees.
Communism also got to space first and got a person up there first. Communism had the biggest armed forces in the world, the most nukes (which are expensive to maintain and not use, so communism was bleeding money but didn’t care as it was beating the duck out of capitalism). Communism had many problems but folks also forget that communism is capable of great things and can do things easily, such as providing their own people, with ease.
It’s the dumb ass central planners that fuck up shit. Get rid of the choke points Putin place by Russia style authoritarian communism and shit turns ugly. People need to see what worked and didn’t work in communism to better understand how it will improve their lives and at what cost.
It’s not a communist country
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The 38-year-old surgeon is among the hundreds of health workers from the Caribbean island brought in to fill a drastic shortage of doctors across Calabria, one of the poorest regions in western Europe.
Spurred by government proposals to reduce pensions, the 24-hour strikes reignited the debate over gruelling shift patterns and poor pay amid an exodus of staff.
In Italy’s poorer south, the public health system had endured neglect for years before the pandemic, with severe cost-cutting leading to the closure of dozens of hospitals.
To remedy the problem, Calabria’s regional government called on Cuba, famous worldwide for dispatching medical brigades to assist with saving lives, most often during times of humanitarian calamity.
The pandemic paved the way for the first missions to otherwise prosperous European countries – specifically to Bergamo, the northern Italian province that experienced one of the deadliest outbreaks of Covid-19, and Andorra.
The Guardian visited Polistena after a holiday weekend during which the hospital, a building in desperate need of modernisation, was busy dealing with emergency operations after an increase in road accidents.
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I’m more shocked Cuba is doing better
Cuba spends a lot of money on doctor training. It may not include a lot of experience in expensive treatments, but the training is on par with most developed countries and most countries will offer reciprocity on education and licensure to Cuban doctors.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the American Medical Association is against dropping the Cuban embargo as the country would be the best place for medical tourism in the world.
I’m not. Cuba has an amazing healthcare force lol
