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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (874556)7/22/2015 4:54:46 PM
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Healthcare[ edit]
Main article: Healthcare of Cuba
The Cuban government operates on national health system and assumes full fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of its citizens. The government prohibits any private alternatives to the national health system. In 1976, Cuba's healthcare program was enshrined in Article 50 of the revised constitution which states, "Everyone has the right to health protection and care". Healthcare in Cuba is also free.

However, there is no right to privacy, or a patient's informed consent, or the right to protest or sue a doctor or clinic for malpractice. [54] [55] Moreover, the patient does not have right to refuse treatment (for example, a Rastafarian cannot refuse an amputation on grounds that his religion forbids it.) [54] [55] Many Cubans complain about politics in medical treatment and health care decision-making. [54]

After spending nine months in Cuban clinics, Katherine Hirschfeld asked in her paper "My increased awareness of Cuba’s criminalization of dissent raised a very provocative question: to what extent is the favorable international image of the Cuban health care system maintained by the state’s practice of suppressing dissent and covertly intimidating or imprisoning would-be critics?" [54]

Family doctors are expected to keep records of patients "political integration". [55] Epidemiological surveillance has become juxtaposed with political surveillance. [55]
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