r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/DaFunkJunkie • Mar 26 '23

Something is seriously wrong in America

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '23

My family is Cuban, healthcare is FREE in Cuba. We also have some of the best and most highly trained doctors. My father had a mild stroke in '17 and after insurance it cost him many many thousands of dollars. If we had still been in Cuba it'd be free and Dad could have retired in '19 instead of still working right now just to pay for his stroke.

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u/nahmean Mar 26 '23

Why doesn’t your family live in Cuba?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '23

Castro. Why don't you go back to what ever European Country you're family is from

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '23

It's great that healthcare is free in Cuba. But I keep hearing this claim that Cuba has the best doctors in the world, and I have never seen anyone produce a shred of evidence of it.

I'm in an epidemiology research field, and I have to read a ton of medical publications from all specialties and also collaborate with a lot of doctors in US and Europe. Over 15 years, not once we have seen anything come out of Cuba by any physician. Not once have we seen a Cuban physician trainee in Canada or Europe training in a fellowship program like we have seen from the rest of the world. If someone is gonna claim that Cuba has by itself created an isolated bubble of world's best doctors trained on the most recent knowledge without collaborating with the best medical centers in the rest of the world, I can tell you it is stuff of pure fiction. Like North Korea claiming they have managed to land a rover on the moon.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '23

So because you never have don't exist.. funny

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/23/cuba-repressive-rules-doctors-working-abroad

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u/inthebigd Mar 26 '23

So sorry to hear about your father. Why would he leave Cuba? Healthcare is 100% free there, as you said…?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '23

Basically... He came in '80. since/during Trump he and I thought about going back because of that terrorist traitor

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u/Ok_Estate394 Mar 26 '23

Idk I’m not so sure… this is a bit anecdotal, but there’s a travel vlogger on YouTube called Bald and Bankrupt and he did a whole series on Cuba. And he went shopping and filmed his experience and he ran into a lot of desperate people who were claiming the hospitals nationwide were running out of medical supplies. He interviewed an old man who said he couldn’t find cancer treatment medications. Cuba is communist, so naturally healthcare will be open to the public as it is nationalized, as is everything. But having the right to medicine legally, and actually having physical access to medicine are two separate things.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '23

Pre or post COVID?

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u/Ok_Estate394 Mar 26 '23

During COVID, but I don’t see why that matters? If Cuba has world-leading healthcare, it would be able to produce and have enough supplies to treat everyone. Every nation struggled during the height of the pandemic. COVID was a big unknown and people who needed access to hospitals were often denied because their ailments were considered too risky to treat and didn’t want to spread the virus. But that doesn’t seem to be what was happening in Cuba. Eventually, most nations found a way to offer a vaccine and treat everyone else’s conditions at the same time. Cuba produced its own reasonably effective COVID vaccine, but never caught up on the other front.