Cuba’s Health Care An Admirable Model

When one mentions the island nation of Cuba, the first few thoughts that would probably enter our minds would be about the 1962 “Cuban Missile Crisis,” communism and Guantanamo Bay. There is more to Cuba than this. Despite being a low-income country, ranking 86th on the World Health Report list of GDP per capita, Cuba has created a health care system that assumes responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. The Cuban health care system is based on the philosophy that it is better to detect conditions early and treat them before they become untreatable rather than let…