Cuba's healthcare niche is not necessarily limited to 3rd world medical care. Throughout the US/Cuba embargo the US had routinely carved out an exception to trade for Cuba's cancer/anti-cancer medications which have been viewed as cutting edge for over a decade. So perhaps another niche 1st world cancer research and treatments.
I'm both astounded and shamed as a US citizen that we enact broad trade sanctions against Cuba today while happily creating exceptions for anti-cancer drugs.
Yea, living in Miami, I see how the embargo negatively impacts people on a daily basis. That said the Cuban ex-pats I know are split on the issue - and fiercely - with half die hard supporters of the embargo and half opposed. As long as the embargo is in place, I prefer we bring in Cuban drugs at least for clinical trials, but I don't think US is happy to create exceptions and it is probably embarrassing a tiny island nation which the US has lead a economic crusade against for nearly 50 years produces any cancer drugs superior to those produced in the US.
