It must be all the seafood they eat. Or maybe it’s that glass of rum after each meal. Maybe smoing pure tobacco leaf in cigars also helps extend your lifespan as it doesn’t contain the extra chemicals they use in cigarettes.
No it’s the free healthcare.
They don’t just have free Healthcare, they have one of the highest doctor to patient ratios in the world. It’s amazing what they’ve accomplished despite how much they’ve been screwed by sanctions. Some dumb people point to Cuba as a failure of communism, but it’s one of the greatest success stories if anything.
I’d be curious to see their obesity rates, as well. The USA has an enormously toxic relationship with food. Sugar is innately addictive and we’ve subsidized its production with the federal corn subsidy, which is part of the reason high fructose corn syrup is in practically everything. I’d be surprised if Cubans were anywhere near as physically unhealthy as the average American.
A lot of Medium posts are soft-paywalled nowadays: http://archive.today/pgjoQ
Reagan designated Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, Obama removed it, Trump re-designated it, and Biden has done nothing but vote against UN resolutions calling for the end of the embargo, as recently as four months ago.
The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution every year since 1992 demanding the end of the US economic embargo on Cuba, with the US and Israel being the only nations to consistently vote against the resolutions.
US government would say that Cuban socialism is a failure like they haven’t spent decades trying to force it to fail.
Why then don’t they lift the sanctions and prove beyond doubt that socialism hurts the Cuban people? Maybe they fear a prosperous Cuba, a successful socialist country right on their doorstep that would make voting Americans take notice.
The US government has pretty much admitted that’s the case, and has been the direct goal of constantly trying to tear down (and assassinate) Castro and have Cuba fail since the 1950s.
EDIT: I’m saying the US has been seething for decades because Cuba has managed to exist as a socialist country right next door, and that’s bad for the capitalist propaganda that socialism bad
yeah but they can’t have junkfood and plastic toys, it’s literally totalitarianism.
I remember when Vice ran a documentary about some losers in Cuba trying to give themselves AIDS as a sign of protest against the government by bogging down the health system.
AIDS can be controlled nowadays with proper equipment and medication. I guess the point is to waste Cuban’s medical resources
Not sure why Cuba is singled out but like most countries with decent healthcare have a higher life expectancy than the US.
Probably because stark contrast between the richest country on Earth treating its people like shit, and country which is harshly embargoed, attacked and sabotaged by it for over 60 years and still having better healthcare. Key difference: capitalism vs socialism. For full picture a comparable, not embargoed and capitalist country should be thrown into comparison, Haiti for example.
Oh, it seems other sources say differently and the article has no source so I have no idea where it’s from. I wouldn’t have know if I didn’t start looking at life expectancy in other countries.
According to World Bank Group from 2021 it seems Cuba is ranked 82th with 73.68 years in life expectancy while the US is 59th with 76.33 years.
Haiti is like 169th with 63.19 years but another comparable nation Costa Rica is 45th with 80.3 years.
United Nations data is only different by less than 0.5 years but ranks the US higher.
How the US treats it’s citizens is shitty and I like how Cuba promotes coops but let’s not spread misinformation.
That’s fair. Don’t you think the main point still stands? The US is abysmal for healthcare and is comparable to a much poorer nation which it embargoes?
