How to pay for medical services?
By: Robert Palmer Torres .*
Official propaganda gives reasons to justify deep cuts to come.
On Friday February 18, 2011, on the third page of the first edition of the newspaper Granma featured an article entitled opinion "How much would you pay for medical services ?", Which sets out the costs for some medical services are free today in Cuba and that in them to pay, would cause the country's health institutions were closed and staff laid off for lack of demand for health care work, for reasons of price, of course.
picture on the right. A patient who does not pay to be taken in Cuba.
how long this government will seek to manipulate the national consciousness and submit to silence by "eternal gratitude ?, Many Cubans wonder.
thank the shotgun in the front
This "free " has been one of the ideo-political weapons most publicized by the government to highlight its "kindness and concern for the people ." But regardless of whether the cost estimates presented in that article are correct or not, we must remember that the standard to conform wages in the country does not include payment for health services, in cash or medical benefits, and therefore, it is absurd to suppose that we should be "grateful for the gift " when wages are not paid enough to cover these expenses.
not be omitted that the pillars of the health of a person and a nation go, inevitably, by a balanced and sufficient food and appropriate personal and community hygiene.
Photo to the left, the Minister of Health of Cuba, with the patients died from hunger and cold that did not pay for your care.
These needs are impossible to achieve due to the high price of the basic national-about 900 pesos per capita per month, as the national average monthly income via more batch-average salary is less than 300 pesos, which puts every inhabitant of the need to poach the 600 pesos missing -67 percent of that basket, anyway.
If it is impossible to meet this humble need, how has the courage to demand that the government is thankful that status? Is not this the same government that every citizen subject to such undignified treatment? Is not that the people who pays the price of unpaid work, medical services? Or is there some other unknown source?
According to Karl Marx , no.
However, the joke is accentuated when the article repeats, obedient, and I quote, one of the highlights of the Economic and Social Guidelines for the next party congress, specifically dedicated to health, where we support the reduction of medical tests with high technology, expensive, and replacement of medical tests, ie, doctor's physical examination.
That seems to be the focus of the article published in Granma convince patients and families should not protest because they do not display complex analysis to discover the cause of their ills and, moreover, should require such non-prescription analysis.
picture to the left of a patient in a Cuban hospital that does not pay for your attention.
Everyone
numbers Who cares if it survives or not a curable disease? The important thing is to "reduce costs " and comply with the mandates of a party which, surely, and drafted legislation to implement its proposals hypocrites incapable of improving the lives of the Cuban population.
More than cynicism, manipulation, naivete or ignorance that promote texts as this article is the ambition for absolute power and lifetime of unlimited authority, to rule over a people who believe see the country's leadership to their saviors since they are barred from hearing another voice other than the media State media. It is, as government policy, to take everyday life of each citizen to extend the leadership.
"How much would you pay for medical services?" question Granma article. Faced with a challenge so insidiously part of this sentence aferrémosno Marti: "Freedom costs dearly, and it is necessary to either resign ourselves to live without it or to decide to buy it for its price ."
* Collaborative Journal of Cuba. HolguĂn.
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