Why Aren't Millions of Americans Going to Cuba for Healthcare?

[CrusaderFrank]

For years the left touted the Cuban healthcare system as being superior. Yet a year after Obama allowed Americans to travel there airlines cancelled flights because the planes were always empty.

Is everyone in America healthy or was the left just spewing more BS?

The free healthcare in Cuba is for Cuban citizens only.

All others must pay cash.

Medical Assistance | U.S. Embassy in Cuba

"It's free too!"

 

[Votto]

For years the left touted the Cuban healthcare system as being superior. Yet a year after Obama allowed Americans to travel there airlines cancelled flights because the planes were always empty.

Is everyone in America healthy or was the left just spewing more BS?

Because Obamacare is just so wonderful.

 

[The Derp]

Because they know the group is supported solely by lies, and can't deliver any of the things they keep promising.

Kansas.

 

[Weatherman2020]

For years the left touted the Cuban healthcare system as being superior.

Link?

Are you playing stupid or does it come naturally?

Cuba Has Better Medical Care Than the U.S. | HuffPost

Cuba's Health Care System: a Model for the World | HuffPost

Cuba Has Better Health Care than the United States? | Human Events

 

[brummelben]

Why Aren't Millions of Americans Going to Cuba for Healthcare?


Same reason they didn't go to the Democrat party for a President.

Because they know the group is supported solely by lies, and can't deliver any of the things they keep promising.

Americans did go to a Democrat for President, by 3 million votes. Trump promised us health care from day 1, now lets talk about non delivery of promises

 

[Votto]

For years the left touted the Cuban healthcare system as being superior. Yet a year after Obama allowed Americans to travel there airlines cancelled flights because the planes were always empty.

Is everyone in America healthy or was the left just spewing more BS?

The free healthcare in Cuba is for Cuban citizens only.

All others must pay cash.

Medical Assistance | U.S. Embassy in Cuba

"It's free too!"

We wan't pictures of Cuba, not the VA.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Medical consultations and treatment at Cuban hospitals generally require payment in cash in Cuban convertible pesos (CUC) or by credit card issued by a non-U.S. bank.

Medical Assistance | U.S. Embassy in Cuba

Thanks for the link. Very first sentence.
"Medical care in Cuba typically does not meet U.S. standards."

What good are US standards when millions of people can't afford insurance, all the while Trump is trying to take away health insurance from 10's of millions more.

Delusional.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Because the LIBERAL bullshit about how the amazing healthcare in Cuba is utter bullshit.

 

[Syriusly]

Just got to the love the Conservatives who love Big Brother telling Americans that where we can- or cannot travel to.

Nothing says 'small government' like the government telling you that you can't go to Cuba.

I can book a flight from San Diego to Cuba.

Yes you can.

And to do so you need to report to the U.S. Government the reasons for your trip.

Tourism- and getting healthcare are not legal acceptable reasons for your trip.

Of course you could just break the law and go there and get treated anyway.

 

[brummelben]

Medical consultations and treatment at Cuban hospitals generally require payment in cash in Cuban convertible pesos (CUC) or by credit card issued by a non-U.S. bank.

Medical Assistance | U.S. Embassy in Cuba

Thanks for the link. Very first sentence.
"Medical care in Cuba typically does not meet U.S. standards."

What good are US standards when millions of people can't afford insurance, all the while Trump is trying to take away health insurance from 10's of millions more.

Delusional.

Now you are denying that 23 million people will lose health insurance?

 

[Syriusly]

My question is, how does the OP know there aren't any Americans flying to Cuba for healthcare?

Well he doesn't have to 'know know'- he just knows.....

 

[brummelben]

Because the LIBERAL bullshit about how the amazing healthcare in Cuba is utter bullshit.

Have you been there ,asshole?

 

[Wyatt earp]

For years the left touted the Cuban healthcare system as being superior. Yet a year after Obama allowed Americans to travel there airlines cancelled flights because the planes were always empty.Is everyone in America healthy or was the left just spewing more BS?

So this is a straw-man. Of course, medical tourism does happen...but when foreigners come to the US for health care, are they enrolling in insurance plans or are they paying cash? No one comes from, say, Belgium and enrolls in Aetna to get cancer treatment. Also, those coming to America for health care are also typically wealthy people. Conservatives want to make it out like regular, ordinary citizens come to the US for health care, and that's just not true.

How come their country's nationzied health care don't pay for their citizens to come to the USA and get the best health care possible?



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[Syriusly]

For years the left touted the Cuban healthcare system as being superior. Yet a year after Obama allowed Americans to travel there airlines cancelled flights because the planes were always empty.

A) Because it is illegal for Americans to go to Cuba for healthcare. and
B) Because most Americans prefer to get their care near home even when it might bankrupt them.

Illegal to go to Cuba? Do tell!
How is it that I can book a flight to Havana?

You know you don't have to lie- you are just chosing to lie.

What I said:
Because it is illegal for Americans to go to Cuba for healthcare.

What you said I said:
Illegal to go to Cuba?

Why did you feel a need to lie? Is it just that as a Conservative that is in your nature?

Prior Approval No Longer Required as of Friday for 12 Types of Travel to Cuba

 

[Syriusly]

For years the left touted the Cuban healthcare system as being superior. Yet a year after Obama allowed Americans to travel there airlines cancelled flights because the planes were always empty.Is everyone in America healthy or was the left just spewing more BS?

So this is a straw-man. Of course, medical tourism does happen...but when foreigners come to the US for health care, are they enrolling in insurance plans or are they paying cash? No one comes from, say, Belgium and enrolls in Aetna to get cancer treatment. Also, those coming to America for health care are also typically wealthy people. Conservatives want to make it out like regular, ordinary citizens come to the US for health care, and that's just not true.

How come their country's nationzied health care don't pay for their citizens to come to the USA and get the best health care possible?



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Hell Cuba won't even allow their citizens to come to America! Not if they can prevent it.

But if they wanted to send their citizens for the best healthcare why would they send them to the US?

 

[Wyatt earp]

Because they know the group is supported solely by lies, and can't deliver any of the things they keep promising.

Kansas.

Illinois





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[The Derp]

Are you playing stupid or does it come naturally?

When it comes to sophism, you take the cake:

Cuba Has Better Medical Care Than the U.S. | HuffPost

Actual except: "which annually spends a miserly $185 per person on health care, has better infant and adult mortality rates than the US, and has a life expectancy nearly equal to ours." So if you are looking at the health care systems purely within the context of those rates, Cuba is better than the US. That is how they're reaching their conclusions.​

Cuba's Health Care System: a Model for the World | HuffPost
More valuable context:

With an infant mortality rate of 4.2 per thousand births, the Caribbean island is the best performer on the continent and in the Third World generally. This is also demonstrated by the quality of its health care system and the impact it has on the well-being of children and pregnant women. The infant mortality rate in Cuba is lower than it is in the United States and is among the lowest in the world. [5]

With a life expectancy of 78 years, Cuba is one of the best performers on the American continent and in the Third World, achieving results similar to those of most developed nations. On the average, Cubans live 30 years longer than their Haitian neighbors. In 2025, Cuba will have the highest proportion of its population over the age of 60 in all of Latin America. [6]​

So again, looking purely at health care metrics, Cuba produces better outcomes than our system does.


Cuba Has Better Health Care than the United States? | Human Events
Again, these links show that Cuba's health care system produces better metrics than ours. If we are looking at purely metrics and nothing else, we trail Cuba and most FIrst World single-payer nations in nearly every metric there is.

 

[The Derp]

Illinois.

Doesn't Illinois have a Republican governor? Also, IL had better GDP and job creation rates than Kansas since 2012. Also, KS' budget deficit is a greater % of its GDP than IL. So what are you trying to prove? Outside of Chicago, IL is a red state.

 

[The Derp]

How come their country's nationzied health care don't pay for their citizens to come to the USA and get the best health care possible?.

Because there is no need to. We trail most First World, single-payer countries in nearly every health metric there is.

 

[Wyatt earp]

For years the left touted the Cuban healthcare system as being superior. Yet a year after Obama allowed Americans to travel there airlines cancelled flights because the planes were always empty.Is everyone in America healthy or was the left just spewing more BS?

So this is a straw-man. Of course, medical tourism does happen...but when foreigners come to the US for health care, are they enrolling in insurance plans or are they paying cash? No one comes from, say, Belgium and enrolls in Aetna to get cancer treatment. Also, those coming to America for health care are also typically wealthy people. Conservatives want to make it out like regular, ordinary citizens come to the US for health care, and that's just not true.

How come their country's nationzied health care don't pay for their citizens to come to the USA and get the best health care possible?



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Hell Cuba won't even allow their citizens to come to America! Not if they can prevent it.

But if they wanted to send their citizens for the best healthcare why would they send them to the US?

Probably because of this

No?


World | Ranking Web of Hospitals



1 Cleveland Clinic

230 5 17 11
2 St Jude Children's Research Hospital

58 3 103 37
3 Johns Hopkins Medicine

23 6 31 61
4 Mayo Clinic Scottsdale AZ

125 1 987 94
5 University of Maryland Medical Center

92 2 1262 34
6 M D Anderson Cancer Center

97 14 25 39
7 Massachusetts General Hospital

401 20 82 18
8 Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris

96 67 10 43
9 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

26 18 619 107
10 New York Presbyterian / Lower Manhattan




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