Does SOCIALIST Cuba have the best health care in the world?

[@brianschwarm8267]

Respect to Cuba for putting people and morality first.

[@Matthew.E.Kelly.]

It's actually not about morality, explicitly -- a state is capable of enforcing anything as "moral" & criminalizing anything as "immoral". Morality is a bad metric for the efficacy of scientific models. Cuba's healthcare system is based on the scientific socialism of Friedrich Engels.

[@brianschwarm8267]

@@Matthew.E.Kelly. sure it’s economically terrific for them, but it’s still moral, and I still applaud being moral. And frankly any healthcare system that isn’t for all, is by default immoral. So yeah, it kind of is about morality.

[@Matthew.E.Kelly.]

@@brianschwarm8267I didn't say it can't _be_ morally good or bad/just or unjust. Only that morality is a bad metric & that scientific socialism (Cuba's model) is about efficacy rather than morality. You should read Engels so you know what I mean 😎

[@joshuamarx8209]

​@@brianschwarm8267Read Marx and Engels please learn dialectical materialism.

[@giorgiocooper9023]

So … you actually fell for this red propaganda none sense ?

[@TheCachoFuentes]

I have specialized in Latin American studies since university days in the 60s and I have lived in Latin America many years. I have known about Cuba's health care system and what it has done and does for other countries. It is admirable, remarkable, and generally unknown in the US. ¡Viva Cuba! What the US has done with its decades long embargo is criminal.

[@johnleahy5853]

& I very much agree with you (from a UK student from the same era also living in Latin America).

[@MarcSpagnola-xv3ju]

@user-rc9gy7fb3l RUSSIAN COMMUNIST CONTROLLED TRUMP MAGAT TROLL BOT ACCOUNT

[@Jin-1337]

the US govn is based on a colonialist movement anyway so it's not surprising they're keep in touch with their roots.

[@benjamins8082]

Im cuba. Im a very very very proud cuban. ​@user-rc9gy7fb3l

[@flower4598]

​@user-rc9gy7fb3lthe only ignorant here is U!

[@1May1312]

It's not just healthcare for humans. Cuba also excels in veterinary care. Shortly after I lost a precious cat to cancer, I learned that Cuban doctors developed treatments that can shrink aggressive tumors in dogs and cats. Think of all the lives we could save if the U.S. just ended the damn embargo.

[@JohnT.4321]

End capitalism and you end the embargo. Non revisionist socialism is what soils the drawers of the capitalist class. They made sure that the American people are fed a daily diet of anti-communist propaganda.

[@peterpalov5157]

It's probably bad for corporate profits

[@nenemydog]

While I would love for cuba to just be able to operate just as an other country without embargo. But it would not surprise me if big pharma would end up boycotting cubas contribution somehow since it would diminish their profits.

[@ABO-Destiny]

@@nenemydog Believe me if Cuba had gained more global importance than USA and did not stick to the autocratic , ill-devised communist system, big pharmas would have abandoned usa for cuba. Thats a fact, thats how business work, thats how profit oriented corporations function, compete with each other and probably thats a necessity for them to survive. Do we have amy alternative? Yes offcourse, the only alternative is to be cautious and apprehensive of too much of anything and everything until the moment when that too much also becomes a necessity and believe me that equilibrium is forever maintained in nature, no one really can have too much. A person who consumes too much suffers from health problems of uncontrolled consumption, thats an example and thats a fact from 20th century each of us had seen. What we need to be careful of is our inner senses, our inner calls, every person has that and that probably maintains the equilibrium among us and in nature. Arguably we live in a much better world having been able to communicate like this , might have saved lot of misgivings, cleared lot of suspicions, prevent lot of conflicts , save lot of lives and I hope yiu will agree that capitalism with all its faults had allowed and enabled that to happen while communism with all its lofty goals and ideas had failed to get even close to it.

[@laika6340]

this is half baked too. while important progresses have been made, they only started the awareness for animal care in the country. humans here cannot simply go and have a surgery. animals won’t be doing it neither, i’m sorry. plus you are talking a modern country where there’s no doghouses. lost of animals in the streets, lots of them suffering diseases or getting eaten (a very harsh truth although hopefully not common). also, the general cuban mentality about animals is still brutal, with little to no remorse in harming, beating or killing it.

[@HypatiaMuse]

I'm in the U.S., where even CNAs & Eldercare workers go without health insurance & access to affordable treatment in some states. It's a disgrace. Bravo to Cuba for setting a positive example to the world.

[@Padraigp]

And usa asked Cuba for help during the pandemic and then never paid them ..usa constantly seem to try to crush any other country that wants this sort of country and that Cuba has managed to keep their country and not have a dictator added by usa is pretty bloody cool. Most succumb to the usa. Poor Venezuela god love all the countries who want to create their own way that are punished by usa.

[@jakobgeigelclermont]

I thought it was Cuba that effered help but the US refused? Either way it's pathetic that the richest country in the history of the world has to resort to blockading a poor country just to keep them down.@@Padraigp

[@juana7035]

​@@jakobgeigelclermontthere's no blockade against Cuba😂

[@juana7035]

​@@Padraigpthe US never asked Cuba for help, stop regurgitating propaganda.

[@yto9873]

@@juana7035 no blockade ? are you brain dead?

[@steveoneal8376]

I am once used the Cuban health care system. A female doctor removed a blockage in my ear. As a visiting foreigner, I was charged $10, which I was happy to pay.

[@nusratjahansmrity425]

❤❤❤

[@senorfreebie]

So you were charged effectively nothing. That's almost a token fee in western healthcare.

[@amadisdee6054]

Most expensive treatment in the world. Average wage is 20 dollars per month.

[@blessingchild9754]

The same happened to me about 7 years ago, I visited Cuba from Florida, before I left I went for my 6 month cleaning and afterwards I started feeling some pain, I went back to my dentist because I knew I was going on vacation and didn't want any problems while in Cuba, my dentist did different tests and told me that she didn't see anything wrong with my teeth. On my 3rd day while in Cuba my pain got to be unbearable and I was taken to a clinic there, the female dentist didn't have sophisticated machines to test me but after a thorough assessment she told me it was my wisdom tooth and it needs to be extracted. I chose to do it on my return because I was leaving in 2 days, the dentist gave me some medications to hold me till then, I gave my appreciation because I wasn't given a bill. I found out that everybody in Cuba sees their doctor regularly and for the others who can't leave their house, the doctors come to you, and they all know the medications and their side effects, they don't eat a lot of salt. I was pleasantly surprised to see how the Cubans, after this crippling embargo still thriving. Dogs, cats all have a special collar and people are not allowed to feed them, the government takes care of them.....I can't wait to go back, again 😀 VIVA CUBA 🇨🇺 ♥️

[@kimobrien.]

@@amadisdee6054 He was a foreigner.

[@julianclover1663]

Private health care is an extortion racket.

[@sharongillesp]

Didn’t you know? The Mafia figured out that educating their kids in Ivy League colleges, run for public office, and become lawyers and lobbyists they could take over. And they have.

[@ryuuguu01]

Not just private health care in the U.S. Nonprofit hospital groups pay their CEOs millions up to $16M. Medicare and non-profit healthcare law was originally designed to enrich a Senator's family.

[@gmenezesdea]

First they make you sick by forcing you on a diet of ultraprocessed food. Then they give you lifelong debt for needing healthcare.

[@marybusch6182]

​@@ryuuguu01and health insurance ceos are Billionaires.

[@charlottesghost2845]

I apologize as a US citizen. I do not support our despicable foreign policies.

[@letsgoloulou]

I am from the Middle East living in France, you guys are also victims of the USA governement ❤️ people does not equal governement. Revolution ✊

[@BetaDreTV]

none of us do.

[@Franzsyztem]

I was born and raised in Cuba, now I'm an US Citizen and from one American to other, the US is taking it easy on Cuba. It's disgusting that they allow that filth to happen in their doorstep while like play in a sandbox half a world away. This November I'm voting for more right wing interventionism in the western hemisphere. 🤗

[@jacobmakes_jpg]

I just got back from a semester in Cuba. The daughter of my host family and her friends are doctors, one of whom is currently fulfilling her social service mission at a clinic in Mozambique. We also had the opportunity to tour one of the local polyclinics, which was fantastic. The healthcare workers we met were some of the most empathetic and compassionate people I've met in my entire life.

[@halgankanolosha8298]

I heard some cuban doctors working overseas do not meat international standards, is that true?

[@troubadour0663]

​@@halgankanolosha8298Do you think countries would allow untrained doctors from foreign nations to treat their citizens?

[@halgankanolosha8298]

@@troubadour0663 I heard rumours about that.

[@gregmckenzie4315]

This is exactly the kind of information that the capitalist profiteers will violently oppose. We need to spread this message far, wide, and quickly.

[@nathanallen1111]

I did not see any evidence of the great healthcare in Cuba. All I saw was someone telling us how good it is there. I'm just curious, why do you want this message to spread without evidence to substantiate it?

[@gregmckenzie4315]

Thank you @nathanallen1111, Sure. Most countries are proud of their own health care. Even the U.S.. But I think this is a different narrative. Here in the U.S. the overriding purpose is profit. In a more socialist country like Cuba, the story is more complex. Have you been there? Do you have any evidence? What is your experience?

[@nathanallen1111]

@@gregmckenzie4315 Here are some Cuban doctors talking about it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJa1fJ-pmJithMksi=DlSXRaoQ21ni3VBk

[@juana7035]

​@gregmckenzie4315 Cuban here. This young lady is one of many wannabe Commies enjoying capitalism in the US. The peasants in Cuba are dying because of their horrible healthcare. I know this because these peasants are my family members. The propaganda being regurgitated is beyond pathetic.

[@Franzsyztem]

31k views in 9months, yike! Those dang capitalist are suppressing this video and the gospel of life that flows from it!

[@katl.7586]

It's almost like putting people over profit benefits people! Who knew?

[@leehayes4019]

Health as a human right! No corporate profit from human misery.

[@notsosuavemate]

Facts

[@marybusch6182]

​@@notsosuavematesnaake oil salesmen have been around hundreds of years and everyone wants them regulated.

[@randallgregerson4761]

This is not propaganda. My country should be ashamed. Viva Cuba!!

[@JasonLewisjasonlewis]

Disinformation isn't necessarily propaganda, but It's encourage a little research into the myth of cuban health care.

[@Lucretia916]

@@JasonLewisjasonlewisthen give some sources lol

[@ghoulish6125]

@@Lucretia916 Exactly. "Disinformation isn't necessarily propaganda" is such a copout claim. Of course, it is, it's the viewpoint of another, wanting to sell the masses on an ideology...how is that not propaganda?

[@EepyBnnuy]

@@JasonLewisjasonlewissources please

[@RB-jl8gj]

@@JasonLewisjasonlewis Go get an abortion in Haiti.

[@cubanwindow3046]

Cuba would be very great without the blockade. Access to health care and free education, I witnessed those services, I grew up in that society with no worries about any disease and with access to medicines at very low costs. people forget that time, and they criticize now that we are immersed in a crisis mainly because of the sanctions imposed by the United States.

[@LynetteBishop-v9k]

#true

[@rafaeleduardoramis7947]

no it would not, cuba without the blockade would be another third world country like latin America. att: someone from Venezuela

[@Lucretia916]

@@rafaeleduardoramis7947Cuba isn’t Venezuela

[@cubanwindow3046]

@@rafaeleduardoramis7947 I don't think so, it would be a country with incredible economic development and social development. Of course it would be a developing country. Venezuela also has sanctions imposed by the US.

[@Franzsyztem]

@@Lucretia916 You're right, it's industries are not as developed and it lacks national resources. Besides the medical professionals that they rent out and tourism industry that turns Cuban daughters into whores, makes Cubans worth less then the Canadian and European tourist that crowd the streets of old Havana and pollute the shores of Varadero and Cayo Santa Maria, Besides that the single party of the Cuban Republic, the Communist Party of Cuba hasn't done shit.

[@belindahanley7582]

I have always been sorry that the US is not Cuba’s friend. Socialism is humanism. I think it’s better than capitalism

[@dexterdr.7020]

as someone from "the evil socialism China", i would argue that both have their pros ans cons, and each country needs to adopts its own ratio between 2 ideologies/systems, so that they may serve the human instead of making us mad and fight each others over them

[@cubanwindow3046]

Not all countries have preventive health programs. People in the U.S. don't go to the doctor for routine checkups, they only go when there are serious health problems and in many cases when nothing can be done.

[@sharongillesp]

Yes, America does have preventative care BUT not only is it not encouraged it’s all expensive. And worse yet, you don’t even trust your doctor to be honest and give you healthy solutions instead of giving you unnecessary medication. Doctors in the USA even perform unnecessary surgeries. I’m looking to relocate to another country since the UK and the USA have become cesspool countries.

[@vmoses1979]

Even worse than preventative care is the American diet which is killing people. Taxing some foods like cigarettes and taking that money to subsidize real food would be a good start.

[@FoolsGoldenRatio]

​@@sharongillesp USA is a pariah for the circumstances "we" (our corrupt govt.) allow, LIKE THE SLEAZY Advent of Commercials for Brand New Drugs That almost ALWAYS have like 20+ seconds worth of rapidly spoken disclaimers2 describe the side effects that almost ALWAYS ends by saying - "in some cases DEATH☠️may occur" TOO many POOR folks that suffer from the specific Condition Associated with the Drug described see THESE cunning ads & LIKE THE MONOPOLIES behind the commercials Hope would happen, they mentioned that SAME Drug to their Dr., Who knows exactly what they are talking about- CUZ they have had the same thing advised to them by the LOCAL version of PHARMACUETICAL REP'S, probably offering a bunch of money and/or bonuses like time share, stock options ETC., If the Dr "sells" a minimum Quantity Or Quotas Like How that whole COMMISSION STRATEGY WOULD TURN OUT FOR... WHAT'S THE NAME FOR THAT "TRADE"? OHHH YES!! SALESFORCE OR SALES MEN OR WOMEN SAD to see clearly the truth regarding the dis function of our relationship with our own literal scorched earth model of a PROFIT BASED SICKNESS CARE MODEL THAT MARGINALIZES THE ABSOLUTE LEAST CAPABLE OF PAYING FOR IT VILE I LONG FOR A REASONABLE CHANCE TO SEE THE DAY WHEN WE GET DONE WITH THE ABSOLUTE FAILURE OF MEDICAL SUPPORT WE'VE HAD TO ENDURE AND ONE DAY REALLY REALLY TRY TO EMULATE A REASONABLY SIMILAR VERSION OF THE CUBAN CLASSICO OF HEALTH CARE AS A HUMAN RIGHT 🌎⚖️❤️‍🩹🕊️🩵💜🩵

[@bslygh]

​@@sharongillespif you are lucky enough to have good insurance it exists. Good doctors and nurses exist as well. Our system is beyond broken tho and I wish you luck in finding good health care wherever it is.

[@veronicavarela2041]

YES! If the USA would leave Cuba alone the world would see how Cuba can teach the world not only on health care but also on humanity. The reason the USA keeps on sanctions is because they don’t want the world to see how corrupted and disgusting the USA truly is. Viva Cuba, Free the Palestinian people, let’s stop the oppression around the world.

[@maynardcapellan1969]

Gazan's are Corrupted by HAMAS..

[@Franzsyztem]

If the USA would leave Cuba alone the world would see a Cuban rocket reach Pluto by 2030 and the average life span of the sickest and poorest Cuban reach 361. Free Ann Frank! Free Humus!

[@FrogmortonHotchkiss]

Reminds me of the spirit of active citizenship and enfranchisement of the FDR-era US, ironically considered a golden age. Or JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you..."

[@TheEricrya]

Excellent work!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@shahbazmansahia9253]

this short-documentary is 🔥🔥🔥!!! Looking forward to more content from Jacobin! =D

[@Fake_Robot]

I went into this video ready to argue certain points because of the difficulty my cousin is having with healthcare in Cuba, but this video addressed it well. We are having to send syringes because they don’t have even that. Malnutrition is also causing health issues in Cuba. We never should have shut out Castro or blocked trade with Cuba.

[@penelopewilson5018]

Because of your precious usa blockage

[@Fake_Robot]

@@penelopewilson5018 Yes, as I said, we should never have blocked trade with Cuba.

[@senorfreebie]

Yes, I was linked this by someone in Cuba, who has told me of many of their modern difficulties, and I was worried that it would just be a boring prop piece without nuance, but it actually ended with a good explanation of specific cases of Cuban hardship that exist today, including the lack of access to nutrition which is honestly unacceptable and must be resolved.

[@CaptPeon]

Viva la revolución! ✊🏽

[@thishyna]

Viva! ✊🏼

[@ars85202]

Che was a doctor who healed a country

[@Franzsyztem]

What country? I know that Argie killed alot of Cubans, Congolese and Bolivians.

[@CatrinaDaimonLee]

i am astonished just how emotional i got watching this!

[@ricardoarevalo6369]

Why ? Can I ask

[@PaulSmith-gi5bf]

same, I was almost tearing up the whole time

[@jackmccourt1541]

I really like this video-essay format. Thanks for this great content that spreads the truth about our Cuban sisters and brothers!

[@RobinHerzig]

Makes me hopeful that a better world is possible 🥺 despite the overwhelming obstacles of political capitalism

[@ebrimajabbi5054]

Here in the Gambia 🇬🇲 we have a lot of Cuban doctors and they are very good at what they do. Respect to the Cubans.

[@heiligebimbam3073]

YES. Cuba’s health care is the best.

[@PhilipWong55]

The world's richest and most powerful country has these festering problems: economic inequality, inflation, stagnant real wages for the last forty years, costly healthcare, an expensive education system, student loan debt totaling $1.7 trillion with an average balance of $38,000, racial inequality, mass incarceration, the militarization of police, deteriorating infrastructure, housing affordability, homelessness, the opioid epidemic, and gun violence. Meanwhile, in one of the world's poorest countries in the Western hemisphere, sanctioned by the world's richest country ...

[@jlmenard7688]

murica

[@adamjohnson286]

This is fantastic, worth watching.

[@zitrandy]

Very inspiring, Good for you: as a poor and disabled American, I live with fear everyday. I'm 65 years old,

[@TheJessierb]

Great video about the achievements of Cuban health care. Thankyou! Only one thing is missing. Cuba integrated into their health system what were called complementary and alternative health modalities (or Natural and Traditional Medicines) such as herbalism, acupuncture and Chinese medicine, flower essence therapy and so on. These are also less costly and carry less risk of toxicity than allopathic or western medicine. This is a remarkable achievement that must be highlighted.

[@Franzsyztem]

That's why all the party leaders go to Europe or Mexico for treatment.

[@PessimistAudiobooks]

Finally, Jacobin covers something socialist.

[@alexjeffrey3981]

A rare but pleasant day! I'm hoping that socialism will see a revival in the 21st century.

[@PessimistAudiobooks]

@@alexjeffrey3981 Same here good sir

[@jlmenard7688]

I see you are people of culture! Long live the revolution!

[@FoolsGoldenRatio]

Viva La Revolution My Social Siblings 🫶🏾⚖️🌎

[@jlmenard7688]

@@FoolsGoldenRatio my comrade

[@Heavenlynightstarz]

Foreigners are treated a lot differently than the actual people in Cuba.

[@DemonioRojoInmortal]

Proud to be cuban! Viva la Revolución cubana! Patria o Muerte!

[@DemonioRojoInmortal]

@user-rc9gy7fb3l I AM cuban. You trying to "explain" my country to me fr??

[@michaelcash1675]

What a wonderful example to the rest of the world especially so called 'advanced' countries.

[@josephyoung6749]

"whatever civilization consists of, a 'for-profit' health care system is not one of those elements" ..."and I really meant the whole system, which i do think is not only iniquitous, but titanically stupid and wasteful." -Martin Amis

[@arxaaron]

Cuba's medical successes are impressive, but they are not alone. I believe the W.H.O. still rates the Republic of (South) Korea, a socialist democracy, as the best public health care system on the planet. Even as a foreign visitor, access was direct, easy and affordable, allowing me to receive important care that was not covered by medicare and that would have cost me many, many thousands of dollars more to have done in the U.S. The examples Cuba, along side my experiences with the Korean health care system, starkly expose just how badly Americans are being financially raped and often killed by the "health care for greed" institutions of the U.S. health insurance industry and pharmaceutical corporations.

[@RB-jl8gj]

Interesting. Not surprising that that would be possible for South Korea given that instead of being under embargo, they received more aid from the occupying US empire than all of US aid to every African country combined.

[@sharongillesp]

@@RB-jl8gj Didn’t know that, but I’m not surprised.

[@Orcram]

I believe you mean social democracy as if it was a socialist democracy it would be worker controlled which South Korea is not.

[@alexjeffrey3981]

South Korea is not socialist. They are a social democracy, which is a capitalist state with welfare institutions.

[@arxaaron]

Korea's high suicide rates are a difficult to explain anomaly, but I think a cultural issue that is separate from the strong public health systems, comprehensive social safety net, and nearly 100% literacy rate found in Korea (the land of public libraries on every corner). My understanding (from my Korean immigrant fiance') is that concepts of honor and associated community or familial obligation are deeply embedded in the 15th century Confucian traditions of the nation, and these may also make taking ones own life more acceptable under dire conditions. Add the excessively competitive pressures of the intensive education system and capitalist job market (in a nation that went from being among the poorest in the world to a top 5 global power over the past 60 years), and some explanation may be be found for the suicide numbers.

[@dcorgard]

Socialism, and willingness, is exactly how they did it. Cuba gives me hope for humanity. Down with the immoral and illegal embargo and sanctions!

[@HerrAndreasSkog]

I am not arguing with the main points of this video, neither regarding American health care nor economic warfare. However, it would be interesting to hear about the health effects of the economic situation itself on the health of people in Cuba. How much stress do people live under trying to get hold of necessities and what does it do to their health situation, physically and mentally?

[@zebj16]

The whole country is falling apart I am sorry to say.

[@moimeself1088]

Isn't that the point? If Cuba can get these results under such extremis, how much more could the country achieve with access to economic relations with the US and whoever else is party to the embargo. I don't know enough about the subject, but I do know that where I live Cuban doctors made a huge difference in expanding access to medical care in rural communities. They were deployed to areas where local doctor were resistant to go as they were too far from "the good life." Props to rhem.

[@HerrAndreasSkog]

@@moimeself1088 Im not arguing with you on that. I would have loved to see what they could have built without American terror.

[@HerrAndreasSkog]

Defeat socialism, get nihilism.@@zebj16

[@rosie-ob8tt]

The sanctions, that is the purpose, when ever the us sees a country of the third world working for their people the us makes sure they are no more.... We didn't know back then what we know now Abt this... Today the us lies are being dismantled and can't hide anymore.

[@Grossmanite]

Sadly Jacobin would oppose the all-socialist state/proletarian dictatorship that makes Cuban healthcare possible.

[@ebubechiibegbula5968]

Cuba well done ... Viva la revolution... History will remember you well

[@ABO-Destiny]

These achievements show one can do good with a faulty system based on lofty and pious ideas and one can have a robust system and still falter if that system is not backed up by humanity. Viva Cuba. One need not kill people or need revolutions to do good for people, there are many ways human beings can show humanity.

[@zizkovhoodmoments1590]

without the revolution there would be nothing of this sort because before that cuba was enslaved under US-backed military dictatorship overseeing the island as a sugar plantation colony and ruled by gangster violence, and its capital Havana full of brothels for american tourists where many cuban women were forcefully prostituted and legal casinos where american businessmen could spend their worker exploitation profits

[@alexjeffrey3981]

You post this on a video showing that revolution can, in fact, lead directly to better healthcare

[@ABO-Destiny]

@@alexjeffrey3981 Maybe, I had not watched the complete video. However, I did already have some idea on Cuba from other sources. The fact is communism is a faulty social concept, marxism is probably an economic path which can produce some relief temporarily. I am sure capitalism has its drawbacks too. It is to me nothing unusual for a human created system to become out of relevance as human created systems evolves to solve specific problems, some lasts longer , some for short period, none of them can be holistically perfect. However, i still hold certain things are crucial for working of a governance system in modern world if that had not been so always and that is the need to look after the citizens basic necessities, whatever ism is used it probably is still a necessity for most if not all societies. The other crucial aspect related to modern governance system is I believe transparency in decision making and for all these things to work smoothly a homogeneous demography under the systems management is essential. It does not require a revolution or killing of individuals to understand and walk that path. However, human beings are strange animals, we never know how a person in power or a person in charge of a counter movement thinks, decides and factors the things.

[@alexjeffrey3981]

@@ABO-Destiny you should probably read some Marxist analysis if you want to understand exactly why revolution is a necessity for guaranteeing the provisioning for the basic needs of people, as well as why "communism is a faulty system" is an incorrect interpretation. To perhaps oversimplify and distil Marx: under capitalism, the division between those who own businesses, and those who work for a wage, gives rise to a two-tier system where the business-owning class end up as a ruling class, and therefore the political system is shaped around their needs (to retain power, and thereafter to to increase profits). Therefore everything becomes secondary to profiteering, including human wellbeing. We can see this play out when workers' rights are cut to the bone to support business interests and yet when banks fail, they're bailed out with taxpayer money. America, one of the most capitalist countries, won't even save your life if it isn't profitable to do so. The Marxist response to this is to work to overthrow the ruling class (just as the French did in the French revolution which overturned the aristocracy in favour of capitalism), in order to run the economy not for private profit but for use-value (ie, to fulfil human needs and desires). However, this is in conflict with capitalist need for profit, and thus communist countries will always be undermined by capitalist ones. See: every communist country to have ever existed and the long campaign of bombings, assassinations, embargoes and sabotage against them that we call the Cold War.

[@LokiBeckonswow]

incredible video, bravo 👏 I hope everyone watching this shares the information around, every person deserves to understand the power of universal healthcare

[@notsosuavemate]

You can blame military Industrial Complex. That’s why Health Care sucks

[@neriruiz5844]

Good ole capitalism in the usa. Who needs good health when you have all that "freedom"

[@Razorthx]

I'm speechless here. I'm from Cuba, and yeah, it was perfect to live, and to retire, the system was great except freedom of speech and so on. But right now, to 1998 to now, times have been really bad, and it's basically an oligarchy system, not a socialist comunism system. Corruption is flowing like wine 🍷.

[@themysteriouswanderer185]

You don’t know what you’re talking about. How is cuba an oligarchy when there are not many oligarchs living there lol. The economy of Cuba is dominated by publicly owned enterprises

[@Razorthx]

@themysteriouswanderer185 OK, go to Cuba and learn, ask local about it. Ignorant.

[@rudolphbritz8836]

Great! ❤

[@kaisontoro9665]

U.S. is monsters

[@greenvelvet]

"if Medicare for all ever comes across my desk with bipartisan support, I would veto it" -Joe Biden

[@werbnaright5012]

A viral tweet said, "Joe Biden just told @Lawrence that as president he would veto Medicare for All if it passed both houses and came to his desk." Biden’s response on MSNBC was not as definitive as the post made it seem. Biden replied that he "would veto anything that delays providing the security and the certainty of health care being available now." He said if it passed, he would want to look at the costs and the impact on the budget and taxes for the middle class. To put it another way, Biden only had critical words when asked about Medicare for All, but he didn’t bluntly state he would veto it. The statement is partially accurate but takes things out of context. We rate this statement Half True. -Politifact

[@AmianteTarvoke]

@@werbnaright5012 He just offered a bullshit excuse that we'd expect from the GOP. Of course he's not just going to come out and say he's against universal healthcare, because that's easy enough for everyone to understand what a corrupt asshole he is..

[@AmianteTarvoke]

@@werbnaright5012 Politifact is compromised and biased to defend the corporate duopoly.

[@werbnaright5012]

@@AmianteTarvoke Maybe. The video and text I referenced showed what was actually said in the conversation, which is different from what the OP said.

[@zizkovhoodmoments1590]

@@werbnaright5012 fact checkers are psyop

[@mustafa.ib.rah7]

What if that embargo didn't exist?

[@LokiBeckonswow]

wow, merica really is the villain here hey 8:35-9:08 down with merican imperialism, global solidarity for all who resist

[@zeideerskine3462]

Petrovskite solar panels are cheap and easy to make. Providing housing, food and clothing is also possible within the trade embargo. Cuba can make education, art, and science for the benefit of all its next priority. Let the disenchanted go and provide a culture of caring for each other. Develop you own patents. The US has failed its own people and the world. All the US does and can do is produce death and misery.

[@GivathBrenner]

Wonderful...socialism for me. God bless the Cuban people....we have much to learn from them. Retired - Canada

[@JemLeavitt]

Interesting. Ty.

[@GabrielEstudante-qq7eo]

Two countries very close to each other, one exports war and misery, the other doctors and peace. Solidarity with Cuba always. 🇧🇷🤝🇨🇺 ¡La isla no se dobla! A ilha não se curva!

[@andysierra1618]

Cuba solo exporta cubanos inmigrantes

[@maamumabdullah4999]

Salaams bro I’m trying to get the Heru tshirt and hoodie but website keep saying sold out where can I get it

[@tracyclark7560]

when you have no where to go but up, reason is in front of your nose. Rooting for you Cuba.

[@kincamell2]

Gratitude for sharing

[@baharinkamarul3389]

And they say socialism is bad. Ppfff!

[@Maddie9185]

I agree the Cuban Embargo must end. We do business with communist China, so it has nothing to do with communism. We also do business with Russia, many middle eastern countries who don’t respect human rights, so it’s not about human rights either.

[@senorfreebie]

Russia has a better human rights record than the United States. That they do business with the USA is shameful.

[@hassaanvault]

Viva Cuba !

[@begrackled]

Res ipsa loquitur, y'all.

[@LynetteBishop-v9k]

❤

[@manie3232]

Well, why don't you move there you like it so much! Has anyone else had that response from the super patriot conservatives

[@timothyproksch2915]

Are any Americans moving to Cuba so they can get free healthcare ?

[@danielk934]

They visit Cuba for sure Also Canadians try to cheat embargo to have trade with Cuba

[@monunyabidness5949]

Vamos Cuba!!!!

[@ochiengalphonce6978]

I know strongly believe that USA is always interfering with successful countries,,

[@ommietheman7894]

Yet cubans are migrating to us and not vise versa

[@bobjong20]

No, by far they don't but at least they try. Cuba would be better off if it wasn't because of the US embargo.

[@diogrigor]

Cooperation produces better results for society than competition.

[@ankundamwebembezi6358]

If human desire to control doesn't overwhelm the desire to provide. Plus competition breeds innovation and prevents monopoly

[@diogrigor]

@@ankundamwebembezi6358 nope. Competition leads to covert monopoly and finally to "there can be only one".

[@sergipantoja5269]

strange way to spell "worse healthcare"

[@jonytriseral8159]

Imagine what Cuba would be like if it were not under embargo

[@doodelay]

In my opinion South America is the moral center of the world. They've got their problems but they tend to put their ppl first

[@EMILY4DAYS]

Revolution is unity.

[@abdulazizclare9545]

Haiti which has capitalism is poorest country and no health care and government. You do the math

[@Jeffrey-hu2gb]

And how many countries where communism and socialism worked And how many countries did capitalism worked in? You do the math :)

[@abdulazizclare9545]

​@@Jeffrey-hu2gbI am doing the math on my country Jamaica in the Olympics. I have no time for your foolishness.

[@Jeffrey-hu2gb]

@@abdulazizclare9545 only 4 countries that used socialism and communism exist today China, Laos, Cuba and Vietnam with 3 of them making reforms to Capitalism While Capitalism isn’t perfect at all its still one of the best economic systems we have so far Let me see a map really quick oh would you look at that most of the develop world uses capitalism

[@abdulazizclare9545]

@@Jeffrey-hu2gb So North Korea is what? Looks like you took them off your list or you did not know about them. China is at the top of the list but the US still trades with it. Cuba which is not as bad as China no trade.

[@Jeffrey-hu2gb]

@@abdulazizclare9545 North Korea didn’t make any capitalist reforms they are still socialist and communist Why do you think Kim Jung nam was exiled? Also what do mean Cuba is not as bad as China?

[@ep30lite66]

Hasta La Victoria Siempre

[@phillbradshaw7190]

I'm sharing this with everyone I know who's anti-socialist/communist

[@Y81715]

Yeh maybe find some better stuff to share. It's not really accurate portrayal of the healthcare system. It's just a vision of how it must be, but as in all things Cuban it is a fully blown nepotist and currupt system. These kind of Western fantasies about what Cuba is does not help the Cubans. They already suffer under devastation US foreign policy and a currupt Cuban elite, they don't need fetishtization from US people that know nothing of Cuba. US has done enough thank you.

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

patria y vida. free cuba!

[@lukenineteentwentyseven5051]

free palestine

[@GeorgeBodley-hs1ss]

There will be no embargo affecting Cuba when Cuba joins Bricks ,Cuba will have trade with a wider community and not be restricted by US sanctions ,further too its likely that a Russian base will. appear on the door step of the US ,or Cuba will have Nuclear capability .as got their health service is free for all Cuban citizens ,the alleged medication shortages should subside .Unlike the US health care where US citizens pay exorbitant charges for health care with many citizens not affording good health care ,ambulance services are the same in the us ,chargeable ,what a joke the us health service is .

[@oliverqueen5883]

They pay doctors like a tenner a week tho 😂

[@kaisontoro9665]

Yes, very yes

[@MrTwenty20video]

💪

[@Tbone1492]

Que Te Pica? Jajajaja What a joke. We lived under the knife in Cuba. Try to own a cow and feed your kids. You can't you'll own nothing

[@DougGrinbergs]

Psst, close caption translation seems kinda useless for visually impaired ☹️

[@paintingpoetryphilanthropy5513]

Ii love CUBA

[@PapaJohnsVengence]

Health care __system__, maybe. Medical technology, cutting edge treatments, drugs, etc tho? Doubtful. Especially with the restrictions they're faced with. Something as constantly developing as medicine can't truly grow in a vacuum, which unfortunately Cuba is in. Still though they should (rightfully) be recognized for what they've managed to develop in spite of it.

[@robertjackson8246]

In 1998, Cuba produced the world's first meningitis B vaccine, with 95% efficacy, and was awarded a UN Gold Medal for Global Innovation.

[@rafaeleduardoramis7947]

​@@Intense_Clouddon't know where you got your info but here in the real world we have cuban doctors being trained in Venezuela under a shortened curriculum because we have a treaty with the island. cuban doctors are even mocked ( synonym with mediocrity)

[@sharongillesp]

@@rafaeleduardoramis7947 You’re point being? Cuban doctors, on the whole, are better than USA doctors. . . they weren’t talking about Venezuelan doctors. And how sadly disgusting that Venezuelan doctors would mock ANY medical student, from anywhere.

[@vmoses1979]

Good for Cuba. But the important thing to note about their laudable health outcomes is that people cannot afford to over consume ie little obesity, they walk a lot etc. In effect - the economic conditions help to mitigate against chronic disease which is the highest cost component of heslthcare and the one that leads to most deaths.

[@MarcSpagnola-xv3ju]

Country embargoed for 50 plus years

[@senorfreebie]

And this is not something that should be lauded, honestly. Longevity due to deprivation is hardly a success, though it's not their fault. It's the result of US policies. But it does have an effect on some of the indicators that people look at, when making simple comparisons.

[@vmoses1979]

@@senorfreebie The healthcare outcomes are laudable - longevity, ability to be active in old age etc. It doesn't matter why people eat less - most people in western countries are eating too much. But it is important to note that the healthcare system or setup is not solely responsible for the positive outcomes.

[@senorfreebie]

@@vmoses1979 it really does matter. There are problems with distribution. There is active austerity being announced to Cubans right now. Of course the sanctions are the primary cause, but their government is not above criticism, and when you have friends there who have a fucking iron deficiency during a pregnancy I don't think it's laudable. I think it's tragic and infuriating.

[@vmoses1979]

@@senorfreebie You are providing an anecdote when the system as a whole is being discussed.

[@DinoCism]

Maybe Jacobin should ask the Cuban socialists if they see China as imperialist. Then they could have their Western chauvinist analysis cleared up by people who actually know what imperialism is and what solidarity means. It's pretty hard for me to take Jacobin seriously with an analysis that's totally in line with the foreign policy of Washington. Western socialists who hold Cuba up as an example but shit on China have clearly never asked the Cuban people what they think about China. It's like they only support socialist societies when they are small and on the ropes, but when they are large and economically powerful they threaten their Western privileged mindset.

[@HerrAndreasSkog]

Socialism is when workers have power over the means of production. That is true for neither China nor Cuba. China is ultra-capitalist witha a lot of state ownership of companies, that does not make it socialist. Just a better form of capitalism than neoliberalism when companies own the state instead.

[@artfuldodger5933]

Just because Cuba has done good things, is socialist, and generally has a more moral foreign policy than the US et al does not mean its establishment is correct in all matters Just because an analysis concurs with US policy does not invalidate the analysis Just because people come from Western contexts does not invalidate their views Your conclusions could be quite right but your evidence as presented is based entirely on ideology and identity

[@sharongillesp]

@@artfuldodger5933 No establishment is correct in all matters.

[@senorfreebie]

@@HerrAndreasSkog China has the largest political party in the world, has eliminated more poverty than the entire West ever did, and has positioned itself strategically as an alternative to the runaway model of MIC led capitalism that's centered in Washington. Without them, the United States would still be running around the world doing repeated of the invasion of Iraq. Calling it ultra-capitalist from your deep dark den somewhere in the imperial core is fucking pathetic.

[@hassandehkhodaeidehaghi3732]

Your comment is destructive and lie, and I believe you have done it intentionally. These are comments by people not USA foreign department. As people see the right action in Cuba and recognize it, they do about China and other countries as well. You are probably a propaganda paid agent working for the Capitalist, creating psychological shit.

[@morleycross1980]

Siempre 26

[@Gitohandro]

Clickbait title... Asks if Cuba has the best healthcare in the world; proceeds to only compare it to USA 👎👎👎👎

[@crazydudesinfl2848]

Health care in Cuba is a disaster. During COVID-19 they did not have enough oxygen, medicine, and hospital bed for patients. Cuban Hospitals are crumbling, Cuba does not have enough medicine to take care of its people. Cuban hospitals are not a sanitary place for its patients and it’s crazy that people applaud the Cuban healthcare system which is a complete disaster People are right it’s free but Cuba does not have the necessary medicines to take care of its patients. For years the Cuban Government has lied to its people about how great healthcare is but when I talk to Cubans in Miami they say it’s not what people actually think it’s a bunch of bullshit that the government puts in their brains.

[@danielk934]

So will you support lifting embargo to make sure that Cuba can supply itself with necessities to upgrade infrastructure, get resources to level number of medicine. Will you support?

[@c0rnm3al]

I was hoping there'd be a more satisfying answer to the "slave doctor" rhetoric.

[@mohamednourdine5139]

this is a complete myth cuba healthcare system was chaotic lol

[@dada210]

Viva Socialism!!

[@manie3232]

I heard they have great healthcare.

[@chrisfitzgerald4775]

Try your best to never lose faith in humanity.

[@billiejoe1550]

Cuba's healthcare system stopped working a few decades ago, at this point there's abaolutely nothing in hospitals...everything must be bought by the pacient at very high prices or be sent to him from his family in the united states, there's corruption everywhere and you have to pay to the doctors, to get them to attend you

[@kaisontoro9665]

Wow

[@kenburnett2445]

🇵🇷 👍✊✊✊❤

[@muliday]

wow