• FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I’m pretty sure that at this point everyone on earth knows the US has absolutely atrocious healthcare and even countries with a budget lower than it’s poorest state can do better. Comparing it to Cuba doesn’t really make any additional point in my opinion though.

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      10 months ago

      American’s must not live on Earth then, because anytime I try to have this conversation I get the same, typical bullshit anti-socialism propaganda and American capitalist innovation arguments.

      So no, everyone on Earth does NOT know that America’s health care is abysmal.

          • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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            10 months ago

            Politicians generally aren’t going to be interested in knowing it, because they generally answer to the donor class that wants the threat of a good example suppressed in the first place, and want our shitty for-profit healthcare system to stay the way it is: a cash cow for themselves. Most think tanks would also want it suppressed, because they’re funded & controlled by the capitalist class as well. Corporate media aren’t going to want to tell us that Cubans have a longer life expectancy, either, because they too are owned by the capitalists who don’t want us to know it.

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        10 months ago

        I think the fact that US healthcare is a joke all over the world is a way better perspective than a comparison to Cuba’s average lifespan (Even if it were accurate).

        For the average person reading an article like this a headline saying “US healthcare is the laughing stock of the world” is a lot more effective title than “Cuba beat US average lifespan for the last 4 years”.

        If you want to seriously compare healthcare then comparing accessibility and outcomes would be a better stat but not to one specific country but all of them. But that would not make much of a news article, more of an actual study.