Contrasting Views On Cuba's Health System
As can be seen is this section, the issue of the effectiveness of the Cuban health system is politically polarized. Thus, as William Ventres put it in his review of five books about Cuba's medical system (including one by Katherine Hirschfeld; see below), it is "difficult to make sense of the reality of Cuban health care."
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