Why can Cubas have national healthcare and affordable medication and not you?

Question

I am Canadian so I sympatize that a country which spends on average $4,200 per person for health care through a corrupt system can not see a country like cuba provides national healthcare to all at almost the same services with such a small GDP. They also have very affordable medications.

Does that make any sense?

Fine, Cubas are poor but what about the 27 other Countrys that have it.

Do some research and you would see that the price would drop since there is no profit system. Makes sense no since there will be no middle man sucking up as much as they can?

Quality of life actually better for the 28 countrys including for the rich. Do not post if you haven't done reseach on this and just repeating propagada.

Sucka its because the governent is also corrupted here and let our system erode which once was great. Now we have also included private hospitals.

As for Specialist, its actually because you are over paying them, but we do patients from Canada to see them and its covered.

At the end of the day I don't really care if you believe me or not since I have national healthcare. We won't let 100,000 people die a day so i will sleep fine tonight.

Answer 1

I'm thinkin' because Cuba is a communist country. Who knows how good it is? We used to think that the Soviets had great, top of the line, medical care, but it wasn't very good at all. For all we know, Cuba's is just that bad.

Answer 2

You must weigh the country as a whole. The Health care cost in Cuba is at a cost of other programs in Cuba. Do you think the average life in CUba is better than America. I have Canadian relatives, and I know first hand that it's not better there. Canada lack Specialist to treat the simple diseases. Healthcare is not for colds that everyone gets. Health care are for serious diseases. People die over there, taht won't over here.

Edit: Have you seen what happens when the government gets involve with Medicine. Look at Walter Reid Hospital, THe VA system, Look at county hospitals like in Martin Luther King-Drew. Corruption is running rampant and the care is far worse than private hospitals.

Answer 3

You need to keep in mind the quality of the care you would receive. In socialist countries and countries with socialized medicine the big problem is you have waiting list over a year to a year and a half long to take care of anything that isn't immediately life threatening. However painful that condition may be. Look here's the skinny do you really want the gov. getting involved further in your your life? If they get ahold of Health care it's gonna be run by the same people that run our Motor vehicle dept., Social Security, and and how many other FUBAR departments? These people are incompetent and most government jobs are a hiding places for the dumb and mediocre at best. How many smart people have you seen working for uncle SAM? So do you want Quasimodo with a scalpel looking @ you're loved one?

Answer 4

Socialized or "Single Payer" programs are nothing more than a government run HMO - the only way to control costs is to manage access - this is accompished by delaying medically necessary treatments.

Read on:

In 2006 Britain's Department of Health reported that at any given time, nearly 900,000 Britons are waiting for admission to National Health Service hospitals, and shortages force the cancellation of more than 50,000 operations each year.

In Sweden, the wait for heart surgery can be as long as 25 weeks, and the average wait for hip replacement surgery is more than a year.

Canada is not immune to the issues either - Brian Day, a Vancouver orthopedic surgeon, was elected president of the Canadian Medical Association last month on a PLATFORM of bringing some types of private medicine and business practices to Canada's socialized medicine. so even Canada is looking toward private insurance as a solution to their issues.

There is a real problem with the uninsured in America, and as a Health Insurance Broker, I talk to my clients about how they as employers, myself as a broker and the health insurance carriers have a responsibility to get these people insured through innovative group and individual products.

We have a large pool of healthy Americans who are not insured, we need them to step up and become part of the solution. In addition, we Americans need to take responsibility for our own health. A significant portion of medical claims are directly related to the American lifestyle (we as Americans have the resources to become fat and lazy). I feel that through employer sponsored wellness, consumerism and disease management programs we can continue down the road of a "healthy America". Result: a reduction of the large claims that have our healthcare spending spiraling out of control.

Answer 5

I was reading last night(here on YA) about a Canadian women who came south to give birth because your facilities were full. She was asking what she needed to repatriate her newborn as far as paperwork etc.
I have doubts Cuba is able to come up with the latest pharmaceuticals without outside assistance maybe from there old Russian pals. What little news, visual mostly, of the current state of Cuba doesn't show a country at any great height in modern development and infrastructure.

Answer 6

Where do you get your information and how do you know how good it is?

You get what you pay for. I for one, would rather pay for my own and be able to pick and choose where and who I go to.

National health care does not make any sense. If you can get government aid for not working and government health for free, what motivation is there to do anything with yourself.

It is hard enough working when you see how many people cheat the system and squirt out a dozen kids and expect the working class to support them and give them a medical card for free. Then they don't get married and don't claim the others income so they can recieve their gov't help.

Now you want to know why we shouldn't have gov't healthcare? People would find a way to abuse that too. If you get something for free then you feel entitled to it and don't respect it. People would be lining up to see the dr.'s for everything. Got a toe cramp??See the dr.

I don't get this notion that we are entitled to everything. All I need is my health and my family, I'll rely on God and busting my butt working to get anything else I want or need.

Answer 7

Almost the same services? You have got to be kidding. Do you actually believe the quality in Cuba is equal to the US when Canada's quality is inferior to the US? We have Canadians coming here all the time for medical proceedures.

Castro had to bring in a surgeon from Spain for crying out loud. You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. What are you basing your opinion on? Some Michael Moore movie? That is fiction!

My wife had thyroid cancer. Time from diagnosis to surgery and cure: two weeks. My grandson needed his tonsils out. Time from diagnosis to cure: one week. My son cut the tip of his finger off at work. Emergency care received within ten minutes. Surgery to re-attach it within two hours. Finger perfectly normal. Father (88 years old) diagnosed with heart valve malfunciton. Time from diagnosis to valve replacement surgery: six days. Cured still going at 90.

Do you think Canada can provide this level of service? Tell the truth. How long is the wait for surgery? Do you really believe that Cuba can provide this level of medicine?

Such silly remarks are not helpful in the debate. The U.S. health care systems has its problems. But they pale in comparrison to those of any socialized medicine program in all but the wealthiest small countries. Most of the problems we have are actually caused by Government interferrence through well meaning but seriously flawed mandates and regulations.

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Answer 8

Cuba has two "healthcare" systems. There is the high-quality system that is given to elite Cubans and to visiting foreigners. This is the system they use for propagandizing. Then there is the system that most Cubans live with. That's the real Cuban health system, and it's what you would expect in any third-world country.

Answer 9

Freedom is pretty cool, it's a shame most of the world and Democrats hate it so much.

Here's what I mean: In America, if Blue Cross gives me crappy service, then I have the FREEDOM to change to United Healthcare. If United Healthcare gives me crappy service, I have the FREEDOM to change to Humana. In socialist countries like Canada and Cuba, WHEN the government gives you crappy service, well that's just too bad because it's a monopoly so you just have to take it. Sucks to be you.

Ask anybody, literally any human on the planet that passed 2nd grade math, and they'll all agree that monopolies are a very bad idea. So how stupid are you to want a monopoly controlling your health?

Answer 10

They are not FREE!! They wanna come here!! CUBA SUCKS!! Why don't you move there if you like it so much Mr. Freedom Hater of Freedom!!! Yada yada yada
You'll get a lot of that.
It's cause the insurance companies make money hand over fist by taking money from people and only paying it out if they absolutely have to, and if you die inbetween the start of your sickness and your approval for treatment, eh, funerals are cheaper than hospitals.
It's a nice racket. All they have to do is grease some politicians in congress and crow about how terrible it would be to have national health care. It doesn't have anything to do with freedom, or health care, it's all about money.
Cuba's economy only stinks cause of the US trade embargo against them.

Answer 11

How come in Canada you have to wait 6 month for a suergery? How come people die waiting for a doctor? Oh yeah because you don't have enough money to hire more doctors. And the doctors suck because no one can sue them. I hope United States can get their cost down and try to cover more people but we are not as corrupt as Cuba and Canada.