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This article makes good points on the reliability of data from Cuba, but there is another point that conservatives should be aware of when confronting libs with the old “U.S. healthcare is worse than...”

First longevity comparisions - which is the usual data point - are useless to measure healthcare. For one thing, the U.S. leads in death by auto accident - not a good measure of healthcare. Second, early death due to drugs, obesity is also not a good measure of healthcare.

Second, infant mortality is computed quite differently in different countries. In many, an infant is not considered in mortality if it does not make it past 2 weeks or X number of days. In the U.S. we have premies that we save and many don’t make it. They’re counted as infant mortality when in other countries they would not.

And, of course, one infant mortality greatly reduces the longevity average.

The most accurate measure of quality of healthcare is rates of recovery and cure.. things that healthcare actually influences. Here the U.S. is very high.