Cuban Health Care: Benefits Without Costs

摘要

The Suggestion By P. K. Drain And M. Barry ("Fifty years of U.S. embargo: Cuba's health outcomes and lessons," Policy Forum, 30 April, p. 572) that Cuba can provide the United States with the know-how to provide high-quality care at low cost is suspect. Cuba's system is specific to a small, centrally controlled country. This is not necessarily translatable to a large, heterogeneous nation profoundly focused on individual liberties, including the personal freedom to eschew preventive care.