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The World Socialist Web Site reports
Under the previous policy, Cubans who made it to dry land in US territory were permitted to enter the country and take advantage of the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, which allowed Cubans to claim permanent US residency after one year in the country. Cubans who were interdicted at sea by the US Coast Guard, on the other hand, were returned to Cuba.
[...] On January 12, President Barack Obama announced that, effective immediately, the US government would end the so-called "Wet Foot, Dry Foot" policy, as well as the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program. In a joint statement detailing the changes in migration policy, the Cuban government agreed to accept Cuban nationals deported or returned by the US.
Through these programs, Cubans were extended preferential immigration status and a continued incentive to leave the country, which contributed to a "brain drain" of trained professionals and provided Washington and right-wing Cuban exiles the fodder for propaganda about state repression in Cuba fueling a constant stream of refugees.
Cuba has an abundance of well-trained medical personnel. Economist Dean Baker has pointed out that allowing the American Medical Association to construct artificial barriers to expanding USA's medical labor force is dumb and makes healthcare more expensive.
Also at The New York Times and Fox News.
(Score: 2) by Username on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:32PM
#1 It's not free, but provided to Cuban citizens as part of their free education
Wait, its ONLY for a select few people? How FASCIST is that? It’s like they’re some kinda brutal dictatorship. What kind of democracy wouldn’t have open borders.
Sarcasm aside, my Cuban friend at work described his life on Cuba as a subsistence lifestyle without electricity at home and making canoes out cocanut trees in order to spread nets to fish for tuna.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday January 26 2017, @10:01PM
You have reading comprehension problems. Education in Cuba is afforded to EVERYONE in Cuba, that is a citizen of course. How is it fascist (do you know what that word means?) to only offer free education to citizens only? Republicans are constantly bitter and enraged that illegal immigrants, or immigrants otherwise, have access to social programs here, so are we fascist? :p
Your Cuban friend described conditions under the double embargo, and quite possibly, during their period of extreme struggle when the Soviet Union fell apart and no longer subsidized them. Since then, everything they've accomplished is their own without assistance from any other country on Earth.
Wow. What a fucking shocker. Subsistence lifestyles on an island facing a double embargo with the most powerful nation on Earth (for sure on the seas) enforcing it both militarily and economically. So surprised.
I'm sure they're are Cuban expats that can say bad things about their country, but they received excellent education and above average health care while they enjoyed that subsistence lifestyle.
For the record, and you can tell your friend, I would switch places with him in Cuba in two seconds flat. They take care of their people, and are willing to invest in their health both preventative, and proactively. What do I have to lose? The American delusion that you could ever get ahead and have actual equality with the Owning Classes? I won't get to continue in the meat grinder hoping that I can become one of the exploiters instead of the exploited? Yeah.... I'm losing out on playing the game. LOL.
All I have in the United States is the right to go die in a ditch because I'm the reprehensible citizen that dared to get sick. It doesn't have to be Cuba. I could've been in Canada, France, Norway, Japan, etc. and probably have been healed and back to normal 8 years ago. Instead, I face an inevitable grind into poverty as my body fails me, and my government can only give medicine where there is huge profit margins to the Owning Class. It's so ridiculously expensive, that it can only be afforded by playing their games (insurance and profit orientated health care).... or making many multiples of the slave wages afforded to the masses.
You might be younger, and certainly, in better health. So enjoy the position you have to denigrate others, and denigrate an island nation objectively kicking our ass in medicine and the objectively better health of their citizens.
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