How can a tiny, relatively poor island nation do so well, with such meager resources, and the richest nation on Earth — the wealthiest empire since Rome — can manage to do as well?
It isn’t that the U.S. can’t do so; it’s that it doesn’t want to — or feel the need to. If there’s a shortage of doctors (or any other professionals here), they’ll just outsource the gigs to another country, or revise immigration rules to import talent. That Cuba does this, in the face of its own dire economic straits, imposed by the U.S. through the Embargo, for generations — borders on the miraculous. And that’s the kicker; one sees students as a cash cow to fuel the banking and education industries; the other sees human knowledge as the property of all humanity, and not a gain to the storehouse of human resources. When students emerged from Cuba’s med schools, their medical degrees in hand, they were only given one small kind of debt — to use their skills to help the poor amongst us. Boy — what an idea!
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