Cuba for Breast Augmentation versus healthcare for the poor average Cuban? would American UHC be any better?

With an annual growth rate of 20% in health tourism, Servimed has done well in its task of marrying health and tourism. Many Italians now couple their annual vacations to Cuba with their annual dental work, while others come for cut-rate knee replacements or eye surgery. But perhaps Cuba's most popular medical service, and the one it heavily promotes to tourists abroad, is cosmetic surgery. Cuban doctors have become expert at breast implants, tummy tucks, liposuction and nose jobs, giving some doctors international reputations while letting them serve the Revolution as one of the country's best earners of foreign exchange.





It's a "win" for the elite doctors and a "win" for privileged patients, who benefit from what has become the world's most extreme two-tiered medical system. It's also a "win" for the Cuban elite, from Castro on down, whom Byron describes as participating in a fitness culture. "When I treat tourists of 75 years of age, I am treating fit people with many healthy years ahead of them," he said. This is also the case with members of the Cuban elite. "Castro is fit, the others at the top in government, at age 75, are fit. They take care of themselves.





"But an ordinary Cuban of 63 or 64 years is already feeble, an old man." For the poor, beaten down by the system and denied basic medical care, the medical system is all "lose."

Cuba for Breast Augmentation versus healthcare for the poor average Cuban? would American UHC be any better?
Slippery slope fallacy. America is nothing like Cuba in case you missed it.
Reply:honey, perhaps if you need to go for some boobies have them throw a side of brains. lay off the miami newspapers they don't really help much. At least in Cuba there are no HMO's thank God for free universal healthcare. Ask your physician if Sicko might be right for you
Reply:Cuba's medical care has resulted in better outcomes than the USA.





Look at infant mortality rates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...





Life expectancy rates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...





Cuba outperforms the USA. In the USA, if you do not have health insurance, the health care you get is next to nothing.





Also, the main reason for Cuba healthcare system being damaged is because of the USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_...





Just think, how much better Cuba would be than the USA if it was not for the embargo!





Saying that, while Cuba has much better healthcare provision for those who can not pay than the USA, Cuba has a worse human rights record. I am not trying to defend Cuba's regime, just pointing out that healthcare there has resulted in a healthier population that lives longer, and babies are more likely to live than in the USA.