Cuba's health care system is helping the world's poor by Sarah van Gelder: "Solidarity” has real-world implications. Before Cuba sent doctors to Pakistan, relations between the two countries were not great, Ceballos says. But now the relationship is “magnificent.” The same is true of Guatemala and El Salvador. “Although they are conservative governments, they have become more flexible in their relationship with Cuba,” he says.
Those investments in health care missions “are resources that prevent confrontation with other nations,” Ceballos explains. “The solidarity with Cuba has restrained aggressions of all kinds.” And in a statement that acknowledges Cuba’s vulnerabilities on the global stage, Ceballos puts it this way: “It’s infinitely better to invest in peace than to invest in war.”
Imagine, then, that this idea took hold. Even more revolutionary than the right to health care for all is the idea that an investment in health—or in clean water, adequate food or housing—could be more powerful, more effective at building security than bombers and aircraft carriers."
Sunday, June 10, 2007
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Jesus, el fifo must really love you guys! You seriously think that Cuba's health care system is the greatest thing ever, don't you? Have you ever been treated at a Cuban hospital? I doubt it! When was the last time the government came and burned all your books? Once again, privlaged Americans talking about things they don't know about, further promoting ignorance.
Dear Adam,
Thanks you for your post. As an American and single mom I am quite aware of
how privileged I am and yet my daughter who is finishing college this year
will be struggling to find health care very soon. .So I am also very aware of the issue from a middle class American point of view. If you read the
If you read the post more carefully you will see that it actually addresses foreign policy and is an example of how a tiny country with much fewer resources than the US makes its way in world effectively without using violence and in fact with contributions to health care around the world for people who have never had those "privileges". My dream for my own country is that we could share our "privileges" around the world by sharing our resources and do good instead of damage to other countries. And I am willing to give up some of my privileges in return for a better world for all of us. What is your dream for America and the world?
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