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LenaBaby61

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2. Even more embarrassing ...

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 26, 2016, 03:12 AM

Nov 2016

Is that with all of our wealth and resources, the United States has a worse infant mortality rate than Cuba, who like you rightfully said developed it's health care system from the barest of bones.

Yikes, the USA has the worst infant mortality rate in the world: More than any of the other 27 other wealthiest countries

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/29/our-infant-mortality-rate-is-a-national-embarrassment/t countries

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Cubas Health Care System: a Model for the World [View all] elleng Nov 2016 OP

Yes and no. It's a little to Spartan for first world people Warpy Nov 2016 #1

Even more embarrassing ... LenaBaby61 Nov 2016 #2

AND elleng Nov 2016 #3

But if you rustle down in the weeds Igel Nov 2016 #10

But if you rustle down in the weeds ... LenaBaby61 Nov 2016 #12

Your info about beds and pillows is from the mid 90s during the austere special period. Mika Nov 2016 #4

In your other trips there it seems likely people you have known for years Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #17

From the author of: "Fidel Castro: Hero of the dispossessed" oberliner Nov 2016 #5

It is their political system that is an embarrassment hack89 Nov 2016 #6

We supposedly have awoke_in_2003 Nov 2016 #7

Ok. hack89 Nov 2016 #8

You asked why they didn't awoke_in_2003 Nov 2016 #13

Cubans get no choice what so ever. hack89 Nov 2016 #14

I am not saying their way is good awoke_in_2003 Nov 2016 #15

Our system is orders of magnitudes greater. hack89 Nov 2016 #16

We can't even get physical proof of who we voted for. LenaBaby61 Nov 2016 #11

That's just Sicko! kebob Nov 2016 #9

Cuba Leads the World in Lowest Patient per Doctor Ratio; How do they do it? Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #18

THANKS, Judi Lynn. elleng Nov 2016 #19

Absolutely. Beyond that, I really hate all this "dictator" rhetoric about Castro. He did some ancianita Nov 2016 #20