You’re being snide because you think you know better but you don’t. I’ll answer your question. Did you know Cuba’s healthcare a system is one of the most efficiently and effectively ran? Did you know other developed nations actually go TO Cuba in order to study how their healthcare system is ran because it works so well? Of course you don’t. Why? Because you don’t work in healthcare administration. I work in healthcare administration. Its my area of expertise actually. IN answering your question if I was of equal distance and had a choice? You **** right, I’d go to Cuba. Other than the fact they have top notch healthcare, it would be F-R-E-E. Completely and totally. Do you know the average cost to the ER in the US for for non-emergency maintenance such as stuffy noise or stomach virus? 2 grand. Easily. This is why ER’s now charge an ER fee if your not admitted into the ER and why people should use urgent care more often. Any more questions?
This is exactly what the problem is. A lot of people are confusing cost and red tape as wore medicine or worse doctors.
They are confusing medical screening and basic care as better doctors.
You can go to almost any Latin American country and in one day get Full set of labs screening and be seen like by 3 specialist in one building for like 100 bucks. But it doesn’t means you were seen by the best doctors.
I’m Colombian and the ammount of times I have to hear from my family how awesome the doctors are in Colombia is amazing. Butt hey are confusing the pleasant experience as better doctors.
If a woman in the US goes for her annual exam she has at least 4 appointments for that.
1. The first cosit
2. The lab visit
3 the mammogram visit
4. Her gynecologist appointment
5 follow up for lab results
That s time consuming and frustrating.
In Colombia that would all take a few hrs.
And if any abnormally came in you would see a specialist maybe the same day.
So of course people say omg the doctors there are awesome.
But to say that the individual doctor is better when all the training for basic services is pretty much universal and guideline based is nonsensical.
A lot of this awesome doctor talk also comes down to nationalistic pride. Medicine has always given a country a sense of pride. Ask any Latin person and they’ll say that their country has the best doctors.
I’ve heard them all say it. From Patagonia to Tijuana. But the fact is they’re not. I don’t see anyone flocking to Quito Ecuador for the latest advancements minimally invasive surgeries. Or the revolution on treatments for any condition.
If your a healthcare administrator and say you would rather go to Cuba instead of here for a procedure than here in the US please tell me the name of you hospital so I can stay TF away from that place.