Cuba trumps capitalists with health care for all

While Canadians and Americans are wrestling with a measles outbreak, Cuba is an island of health according to Canadian Researcher John Kirk.

Not only has every Cuban been vaccinated but if you were to stop any random person on a Havana street, he or she can tell you “exactly what immunisation they already had, the scientific evidence behind them, and at what ages they needed to be updated”.

That’s because Cuba integrates information about all aspects of vaccination. The result is that Cubans see vaccination as both a right and a patriotic duty. And the benefits are obvious. Cuba hasn’t had a single case of measles in two decades while Canada had more than 2,000 and the US many times that.