<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">That article about the Cuban health care system is extremely valuable for Americans. It shows that the flawed health results in America, by comparison, are related to our flawed political and economic systems. <div><br></div><div>Thus one lesson is to work to alter our political system towards a more effective and more democratic system. </div><div><br></div><div>There is good scholarly work on how to do that by Yale constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar. </div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Kelly<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Kelly Patrick Gerling, Ph.D. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Seattle</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Phone:</span></div><div>Cell: 206-618-2888</div><div><br></div><div>Email: </div><div>kelgerling@gmail.com</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 23, 2022, at 5:55 AM, Dennis Raphael <draphael@yorku.ca> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p class="x_intro-text">Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the United States (76.1 years) plunged by almost three years, while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years (78.98 years). Yet, in 1960, the year after its revolution, Cuba
had a LE of 64.2 years, lower by 5.6 years than that in the US (69.8 years). As I document in Cuban Health Care, the island quickly caught up to the US and, from 1970 through 2016, the two countries were nip and tuck, with some years Cuba and other years the
US having a longer LE. But neither country was ever as much as one year of LE ahead of the other.</p>
<p>This continued through the beginning of COVID, which then sharply changed the pattern. Life expectancy in the US suddenly dropped behind that in Cuba. Bernd Debusmann Jr. of BBC News wrote that LE in the US fell “to the lowest level seen since 1996. Government
data showed LE at birth now stands at 76.1 compared to 79 in 2019. That is the steepest two-year decline in a century.” From 2019 to 2020, “LE declined in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.”</p>
<p>How could a country with all the problems of Cuba actually have LE almost three years greater than the US? The answer seems to be in the enormous difference between the way the countries responded to COVID.</p>
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