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Re:Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’ by panarky on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:39PM (#15366805)
Earlier this year I visited Cuba and rented a room from cardiologist and his family.

He explained that the results of the Cuban system are mixed.

On the one hand, literacy and life expectancy are way up since the revolution.

On the other hand, cardiologists need to rent rooms to people like me to afford their simple life.

He recognized the deficiencies of their system, but he thought they were outweighed by the benefits.

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Re:Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’ by taw55 on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:00PM (#15366973)
You find this mixed reaction in a lot of former communist countries, both capitalist and communist institutions have a vested interest in maintining a cartoon dichotomy.
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Re:Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’ by briandear on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:23PM (#15367735)
But everyone’s life expectancy and literacy is up since the revolution. Comparing 1940 Cuba with 2017 Cuba isn’t even useful, regardless of political system.
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