Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Most of the American citizens do not earn enough to shell out for the costly premiums of healthcare insurance

Even for America’s bete noire Cuba, healthcare has been a shining achievement of the country’s long-running socialist regime. Cuba has been more than successful in providing cheap and quality health cover to its 11 million citizens (it’s constitution under Article 50 empowers its citizen to have universal and free healthcare). With about 60 doctors per 10,000 population, Cubans enjoy the highest life expectancy in the whole of Latin America (about 77 years). The United Nation’s erstwhile Secretary General, Kofi Annan, recently complimented Cuban Healthcare System, calling it ‘world’s best public services’.

It would then be worthwhile for the American administration to emulate Cuba or Canada for ameliorating the plight of its hapless citizens.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative