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March 29, 2016 09:55 am PDT
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Cuba's free med schools are the meritocratic institutions that America's private system can't match
The median parental income of the parents of new med school students in America is $100,000 -- twice the national average. In Cuba, America's brilliant, working class med students pay nothing -- free tuition, lodging and meals -- and they come home to America and provide front-line medical services to families who are frozen out of the US system, in which debt-saddled doctors opt for lucrative specialties instead of family medicine. (more…)
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