Does SOCIALIST Cuba have the best health care in the world?

For 60 years, the United States has enforced a crippling embargo against the island of Cuba in order to “bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government,” according to a 1960 State Department memorandum.

But against the odds, Cuba has developed a revolutionary model of scientific innovation and medical provision that has not only ensured universal health care for its own citizens, but also — through its world-renowned medical brigades — delivered high-quality care to millions of people across the Global South free of charge.

For Episode #4 of “The International,” a world-spanning video series brought to you by Jacobin and the @ProgIntl , Dr. Samira M. Addrey — a graduate of Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine — tells the story of Cuba’s socialist health care model that the US government desperately does not want you to know.

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