Tournament: GFCA Varsity State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Chattahoochee PM | Judge: Lisa Willoughby
Cuban health care strong now – universal care and easy access.
Badore 13, Margaret Badore, writer for Mother Nature Network, 2013 (“What we can learn from Cuba's health care system,” Mother Nature Network, Available Online at http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/what-we-can-learn-from-cubas-health-care-system, Accessed 2-22-2014)
The correlation between low income and poor health has . . .
potential new treatments and approaches to explore.
Lifting the Embargo will devastate Cuban health care – causes brain drain.
Garrett 10 — Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist and Senior Fellow on Council on Foreign Relations of the Global Health Program, 2010 (“Castrocare in Crisis: Will Lifting the Embargo on Cuba Make Things Worse?,” The Cuban Economy, Available Online at http://thecubaneconomy.com/articles/2013/02/castrocare-in-crisis-will-lifting-the-embargo-on-cuba-make-things-worse/, Accessed 2-22-2014)
Cuba is a Third World country that aspires to First World medicine and health. . .
normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba killed that vision.
Strong Cuban health care key to disease prevention in poor nations.
Oxford Journal 6 — International Journal Epidemiology, part of Oxford Journal, 2006 (“Health in Cuba,” Available Online at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/817.full#ref-list-1, Accessed 2-23-2014)
The poorer countries of the world continue to struggle
. . . discussion should take place on the potential lessons to be learned from the Cuban experience.
Infections disease spread risks global extinction
Steinbruner 98 -- John D. Steinbruner, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, “Biological weapons: A plague upon all houses,” Foreign Policy)
It is a considerable comfort and undoubtedly a key to our survival
. . . but a fundamental security problem for the species as a whole.