On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:19:26 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 20:03:11 on
Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Charles Ellson remarked:

Today, the British have nowhere near enough medics. The Cubans have a
large surplus. Either this is the result of the policies outlined, or
the British middle and working classes are significantly less educable
than Cuban peasants, while the British ruling caste is more interested
in going into banking or politics than into medicine.

It's probably because the ones in Cuba are paid minimum wage

Something still not universally applied to workers in the UK ?

Cuba's *average* wage in the public sector is $20 per month.

Minimum wage $9 per month.

Apparently the actual amount depends on who you ask and as a bald
figure (possibly now 2y out of date) ignores relative
income/expenditure and local cost of living but still arrives at a
rather more modest income than experienced in the UK.
As recent and past court/tribunal cases have shown, there are still
plenty of employers in the UK trying an assortment of methods to avoid
paying the minimum hourly wage.