cuba Archive

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  Cuba’s health care system - by frog

  
  
  
  Here is something interesting to think about – a press release from the Cuban Embassy about their Health System. What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care Just a morning’s boat ride from the tip of Florida is a place where medical costs are low and doctors plentiful. It’s Cuba – and Stanford University physician Paul [...] read more
  May 7, 2010 10:33 am - 51 Comments
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  Oil dips as economies wane - by frog

  
  
  
  Let the gyrations begin. As economies reel from the explosion in oil prices over the last couple of years, demand is dropping and with it, prices. As I write, oil is at $109.54, up slightly after yesterday’s significant low. Hurricane Gustav had pushed prices up a bit, but markets are heaving a sigh of relief [...] read more
  September 3, 2008 1:38 pm - 23 Comments
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  Cuba in the Pacific - by frog

  
  
  
  The Hive is looking on worried at six Cuban doctors working for free in Vanuatu.  Presumably it is worried about some sort of communist domino effect in the Pacific, as that is the sort of thing foreign affairs bureaucrats are paid to worry about.  And maybe the Hive is on to something – there are [...] read more
  August 12, 2008 10:10 am - 7 Comments