So Cuban life expectancy has improved from 65 to 75-80 years in 45 years. Life expectancy in India has improved from 35 to 65 years during 1950-2000. Countries in East and South East Asia have performed better than India.
Ulhas, It would probably be a lot better if you explain exactly what your point is? So fine, India and other Asian countries have made outstanding progress in health care in the last 50 years. So what is your point? We started talking about health-care statistics because of the unsubstantiated reference by David Shemano to deficiencies in Cuba's health care system. Cuba is not exactly Paradise on earth. I just wish people would make more intelligent criticisms of the Cuban government, something that would at least survive a quick google search. For instance there is lots of press about a food shortage in Cuba and about how Cuba is going organic by necessity: http://www.tve.org/ho/doc.cfm?aid=1399 http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba/shortages.htm I don't know much about this, but at least the alleged food shortage is harder to refute than the bizarre, unsubstantiated assertions about Cuba's health care system, a system that has been applauded universally even by detractors of the communist government. --raghu.
