• maness300@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why would they turn to a communist country to help them with healthcare?

    I thought communism ‘didn’t work’.

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      1 year ago

      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.

      • detalferous@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        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.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, Cuba is a mess at the moment. I don’t know that this proves anything other than that Italy’s pivot to private healthcare and defunding public health services is fucking disastrous.

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          1 year ago

          Cuba has never been successfully destabilized by the US, though we’ve certainly tried. The US embargo has done some economic damage, but that’s different from destabilization. However, the largest part of Cuba’s economic problems have been due to Cuba’s own economic policies.