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We're doing with jefferson university, population health center, the only one in the country starting to deal with regulars and training doctors and our mba which is going 40% a year. for the third straight year. >> where do they go? >> they're in the company. you don't come to our school and get a promotion. you don't change jobs. you get promoted within your company, and more than half are getting promotions while they are working. stay in the job while they're in school. now let's go to the why rear tying up with everjefferson. there's a desperate need for doctors. they're being bought out ...

Economic model that would not work in the united states. what do you see as the advantages of the cuban system, the low infant mortality rate, for instance, which is legendary around the world but also the gaps you're trying to fill? >> i was struck by one what one of the medical students say having so little and building up to more because obviously what they've done in health care here wasn't built in a day. it was built over the last 50 years. it was built with a public policy of emphasizing health care for all. soed you do have universal health care, free. it is also a system that emphasiz...

>> cuba is highly regarded for its health care and especially once fidel castros significant project, which is training doctors, doctors who then provide free medical care throughout latin america. during one of my many past visits castro took me on a tour to the medical school to meet the first class of young doctors in training. now a decade later the school has graduated almost 10,000 doctors. last year's class included 19 americans among students from 22 countries. as the u.s. debates health care we thought it would be good to take a look at the school. back to the latin american medical s...

Imback of the embargo pap what do you do in terms of bringing in doctors who train here, do they teach? do you also deal with vaccines and other supplies although cuba has a very -- castro once showed meer tos, there was an erroneous claim, biomedical weaponry and showed they were basically making antibiotics. >> you got into the intersanctum to see what was going on. >> there are shortages. >> there are shortages and i would say there's a few different kinds of problems. one kind of problem is very similar to we face in the states chronic diseases the kind of diseases, heart disease, hyperten...

affecting our kids. max page. or should i call him mini darth vader. you remember max page. we introduced you to him last we' week. he is 6 years old and on his third pacemaker. he took capitol hill by storm this week. max and his family came to washington with a group of kids to put the pressure on lawmakers. >> we are one family from california trying to make a difference. >> to protect medicaid coverage for children and preserve funding for the programs that train half of the pediatricians. they met with lawmakers from both parties. >> i want to help my hospital. >> so, it is hard...