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Cuba hikes salaries for doctors, nurses; Ahhhhhh,FREE HEALTH CARE!
Topic Started: Mar 23 2014, 01:53 PM (212 Views)
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/101515322

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Cuba is giving its hundreds of thousands of medical workers raises that in some cases exceed 100 percent, official media on the island announced Friday, though pay remains much lower than what medical professionals earn elsewhere.

The Communist Party daily newspaper Granma also reported that Cuba expects to take in $8.2 billion this year for the tens of thousands of medical worker it sends to care for the poor in countries such as Venezuela and Brazil.

Granma published a sample of what the pay hikes, which take effect June 1, will look like. At the high end, doctors with two specialties will see their salary go from the equivalent of $26 a month to $67, while an entry-level nurse will make $25, up from $13.


Salaries at government jobs in Cuba average about $20 a month, augmented by a range of free services and subsidies

The raise will affect more than 440,000 medical sector employees, Granma said, and was made possible by the elimination of 109,000 redundant jobs in the last four years.

"This is very good news that makes me tremendously happy. ... With my first paycheck I'm going to buy a toy for my youngest grandson, who's 3," said Soraida Pina, a 62-year-old nurse. "This will open new doors for me."

Others were less wowed.



"They had talked to us about this, and it's very important for the family economy, but it continues to be a salary that means very little because everything is very expensive," said Laura Vazquez, a 38-year-old pathologist.

Cuba also is raising the salaries of medical workers on international missions, which already pay higher salaries and in hard currency.

Doctors and nurses working in Cuban ally Venezuela, for example, will see their salaries double.

The changes "will contribute to the stability and quality of the medical services for the people, as well as fulfill international commitments," Granma said.


Ya gotta love Communism!
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Mar 23 2014, 01:53 PM
...gotta love Communism!
No, I don't see it Pops. I can't love Communism.

Democracy is the best well-oiled machine, on Earth, if you could ever remove White-racism from the equation.
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What did some of the founding fathers have to say about a "Pure Democracy"?
FYI, The US has NEVER been a "democracy"!

http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=111

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We have grown accustomed to hearing that we are a democracy; such was never the intent. The form of government entrusted to us by our Founders was a republic, not a democracy.1 Our Founders had an opportunity to establish a democracy in America and chose not to. In fact, the Founders made clear that we were not, and were never to become, a democracy:

[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.2 James Madison

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.3 John Adams

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.4 The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness [excessive license] which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.5 Fisher Ames, Author of the House Language for the First Amendment

We have seen the tumult of democracy terminate . . . as [it has] everywhere terminated, in despotism. . . . Democracy! savage and wild. Thou who wouldst bring down the virtuous and wise to thy level of folly and guilt.6 Gouverneur Morris, Signer and Penman of the Constitution

[T]he experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.7 John Quincy Adams

A simple democracy . . . is one of the greatest of evils.8 Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration

In democracy . . . there are commonly tumults and disorders. . . . Therefore a pure democracy is generally a very bad government. It is often the most tyrannical government on earth.9 Noah Webster

Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state, it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage.10 John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration

It may generally be remarked that the more a government resembles a pure democracy the more they abound with disorder and confusion.11 Zephaniah Swift, Author of America's First Legal Text

Many Americans today seem to be unable to define the difference between the two, but there is a difference, a big difference. That difference rests in the source of authority.

A pure democracy operates by direct majority vote of the people. When an issue is to be decided, the entire population votes on it; the majority wins and rules. A republic differs in that the general population elects representatives who then pass laws to govern the nation. A democracy is the rule by majority feeling (what the Founders described as a "mobocracy" 12); a republic is rule by law. If the source of law for a democracy is the popular feeling of the people, then what is the source of law for the American republic? According to Founder Noah Webster:
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cisslybee2012
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Mar 23 2014, 01:53 PM
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101515322

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Cuba is giving its hundreds of thousands of medical workers raises that in some cases exceed 100 percent, official media on the island announced Friday, though pay remains much lower than what medical professionals earn elsewhere.

The Communist Party daily newspaper Granma also reported that Cuba expects to take in $8.2 billion this year for the tens of thousands of medical worker it sends to care for the poor in countries such as Venezuela and Brazil.

Granma published a sample of what the pay hikes, which take effect June 1, will look like. At the high end, doctors with two specialties will see their salary go from the equivalent of $26 a month to $67, while an entry-level nurse will make $25, up from $13.


Salaries at government jobs in Cuba average about $20 a month, augmented by a range of free services and subsidies

The raise will affect more than 440,000 medical sector employees, Granma said, and was made possible by the elimination of 109,000 redundant jobs in the last four years.

"This is very good news that makes me tremendously happy. ... With my first paycheck I'm going to buy a toy for my youngest grandson, who's 3," said Soraida Pina, a 62-year-old nurse. "This will open new doors for me."

Others were less wowed.



"They had talked to us about this, and it's very important for the family economy, but it continues to be a salary that means very little because everything is very expensive," said Laura Vazquez, a 38-year-old pathologist.

Cuba also is raising the salaries of medical workers on international missions, which already pay higher salaries and in hard currency.

Doctors and nurses working in Cuban ally Venezuela, for example, will see their salaries double.

The changes "will contribute to the stability and quality of the medical services for the people, as well as fulfill international commitments," Granma said.


Ya gotta love Communism!
20 bucks a month?

That's all a Cuban citizen has to live on?

I find that hard to believe. :D
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Great move for Cuba, great reward for health workers.
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Mar 23 2014, 01:53 PM
Ya gotta love Communism!
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The average monthly salary in Cuba rose 17 per cent between 2006-2011 to the equivalent of $19, the state statistics office said Monday.

That meant the average monthly wage of workers in Cuba -- where the Communist-ruled state controls more than 90 per cent of the economy -- climbed from the equivalent of $16 a month in 2006 to $19 last year, the office said on its website.


Yep gotta luv communism :huh:
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cisslybee2012
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I don't understand how anybody can live on 20 bucks a month.

Rent must be like 50 cents a month, and you can get five loaves of bread for a penny.
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http://www.afrocubaweb.com/News/whyblackcubans.htm
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cisslybee2012
Mar 25 2014, 07:04 PM
I don't understand how anybody can live on 20 bucks a month.

Rent must be like 50 cents a month, and you can get five loaves of bread for a penny.

Loaf of Fresh White Bread (500g) 0.38 $

Eggs (12) 0.66 $

Pack of Cigarettes (Marlboro) 1.00 $

Public transportation

One-way Ticket (Local Transport) 0.04 $
Monthly Pass (Regular Price) 1.00 $

Utilities
Basic (Electricity, Heating, Water, Garbage) for 85m2 Apartment 13.50 $ monthly


Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat 0.06 $

Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre 223.33 $

Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages (%), Yearly 1.00
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Cuba
Edited by kennyinbmore, Mar 26 2014, 09:43 AM.
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Looks like they have enough left for savings. :P
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