Comments on: Cuban Medical Diplomacy: When the Left Has Got It Right http://www.coha.org/cuban-medical-diplomacy-when-the-left-has-got-it-right/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cuban-medical-diplomacy-when-the-left-has-got-it-right COHA is an NGO specialized in monitoring Latin American and Canadian Relations for more than 30 years... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:34:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: c-u-r-m-u-d-g-e-o-n http://www.coha.org/cuban-medical-diplomacy-when-the-left-has-got-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-35357 c-u-r-m-u-d-g-e-o-n Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:02:06 +0000 http://www.coha.org/2006/10/30/cuban-medical-diplomacy-when-the-left-has-got-it-right/#comment-35357 The WHAT of Cuban medical education is remarkable, but fairness and balance also requires the HOW. Many sources attest to the limited rights to free expression, movement, career development, redress of grievances and privacy in Cuba. To what extent does this increased flexibility for government action support large-scale, inexpensive medical education in Cuba? Constraint of other career paths decreases the perceived profit needed to motivate the study and practice of medicine. Can a country approach the success Cuba has had through a proportional dedication of government resources, but within a free economy? To what extent does Cuban success and economy in medicine demonstrate the costs that privacy restrictions (including the right to die of natural causes in a hospital and not be dissected) and free access to the courts impose on medical education in the United States? To what extent might U.S. medical education increase if restraint by professional interests and avaricious patients were curtailed without limitation of other civil rights? As the U.S. implements its new health care payments framework, careful attention to the Cuban experience might inform policy makers concerning the likely consequences of their innovations. The WHAT of Cuban medical education is remarkable, but fairness and balance also requires the HOW. Many sources attest to the limited rights to free expression, movement, career development, redress of grievances and privacy in Cuba. To what extent does this increased flexibility for government action support large-scale, inexpensive medical education in Cuba? Constraint of other career paths decreases the perceived profit needed to motivate the study and practice of medicine. Can a country approach the success Cuba has had through a proportional dedication of government resources, but within a free economy?

To what extent does Cuban success and economy in medicine demonstrate the costs that privacy restrictions (including the right to die of natural causes in a hospital and not be dissected) and free access to the courts impose on medical education in the United States? To what extent might U.S. medical education increase if restraint by professional interests and avaricious patients were curtailed without limitation of other civil rights?

As the U.S. implements its new health care payments framework, careful attention to the Cuban experience might inform policy makers concerning the likely consequences of their innovations.

]]> By: Spencer Nagle http://www.coha.org/cuban-medical-diplomacy-when-the-left-has-got-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-34217 Spencer Nagle Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:25:50 +0000 http://www.coha.org/2006/10/30/cuban-medical-diplomacy-when-the-left-has-got-it-right/#comment-34217 This an interesting article. This an interesting article.

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