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It's not the healthcare that bothered me most, although it did.
It's the cognitive dissonance around the unavailability of healthcare in order to avoid anxiety over the fact that a traffic accident can bankrupt you with no relief. Ignoring the risk takes some serious mental gymnastics and basic math failure to get there, but when brought up in this environment - where a TV show about a teacher who has to cook and sell meth to get hospital money is actually a plausible plot where no one actually examines the mercenary care at all and the main character just pays it - it's just a part of their existence.
Not understanding that few other people live like this - cubans don't live like this - is absurd.
When I watch "alone", it's so depressing at the end when they ask them what they'll do with the money they won. And they say "pay for my wife's cancer treatment". Like omg America
It's awful
probably more noble than the ending to squid game lol
Yeah, as an American it's disturbing and makes it hard to believe we can change things. You've described it very well.
Maybe that explains the amount of mental health issues in the population?
yeah idk about this one, it wasn't good but the asylum shit was killed in the 50s from what i can remember. Obviously we didn't do much after that, but it probably wasn't as bad. Most of those people probably just ended up in prison to be honest. Again for lobotomies, it looked like we stopped doing that in the mid 50s, by the 60s probably entirely.
Also the reason mental healthcare sucks is that we don't have enough practitioners right now. It's a bit of a problem.
Why were Cubans emphasized out of all people?
A natural impoverished (by us) enemy just a stones throw away.
What's natural about a blockade?
obviously nothing, but we did it anyway and forced a nearby country into near starvation, thankfully they were resilient enough to hold out but not before we labelled them our enemy
It really is a tremendous injustice. Hopefully with global shifts in power they get some breathing space. The world would grow with a growing and prospering Cuba. They've had and have a lot to offer.
Because cubans are considered a poor, third world country (despite the definition being something different) and because USA considered them an example of evil communism. Sure, communism then was far from ideal, but at least now they have healthcare (according to OP)