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> Subject: [CubaNews] Joycelyn Elders: Cuba better at keeping people healthy
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/09/13/cuba.us.health.ap/index.html
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> Joycelyn Elders: Cuba better at keeping people healthy
> September 13, 2001 Posted: 2:36 AM EDT (0636 GMT)
>
> Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders said Wednesday that Cuba's
> health care system is better at keeping people healthy than the U.S. system.
>
> After a two-day tour to speak with doctors and tour medical facilities on
> the communist island, Elders said she was impressed with the quality of
> Cuba's preventative, primary health care, especially compared with the U.S.
> system.
>
> "Cuba's is better," she said. "They work at keeping people healthy."
> Elders said the United States still had better health care for patients who
> were sick.
>
> Cuba lacks important medicines and equipment, said many of the five doctors
> who traveled to Cuba in the trip sponsored by the Disarm Education Fund. The
> group has sent more than $65 million worth of medicines and medical supplies
> to Cuba.
>
> The Cuban government has long argued against the four-decade long embargo
> against its country, and an increasing number of Democrats and Republicans
> have called for its end.
>
> President George W. Bush, however, has said he wants to maintain current
> U.S. policy toward Cuba.
>
> Elders served as the 16th surgeon general, from 1993-95, under President
> Clinton. She was fired in December 1994 after saying at a United Nations
> AIDS conference that discussion of masturbation should be part of sex
> education in schools.
>
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