Is Cuban healthcare actually good?

Better than average for such a poor country, but hardly a huge success story

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The New York Times recently ran a story about Covid-19 overwhelming the hospital infrastructure in Cuba, as it has whenever it’s hit lower-income countries who simply have fewer resources to dedicate to this kind of thing.

The headline describes this as “Overwhelmed by Coronavirus, Cuba’s Vaunted Health System Is Reeling…