Which Country Actually Has the BEST Healthcare System?

--Caller wonders which country has the best universal health care system
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Broadcast on January 14, 2022

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[minnie]

I live in Greece, a country on the brink of bankruptcy for years. We have national health care here and my husband had to have emergency, major vascular surgery last spring. All went very well, thank God and we didn't pay even one euro!

[leonieromanes]

My Country New Zealand and our neighbours Australia, have socialised healthcare. We consider it a right. Only developing countries and the US lack free healthcare. Why pay taxes, if you don't receive universal healthcare.🤷‍♀️

[spaceman]

Public healthcare is the mark of a decent society, vs a playground for selfishness and greed.

[brianbarcroft]

I'm a Brit who has lived in France for 20 years. Both systems work well. No-one has to sell their house or take out a loan. I have had three major illness' over the past two years. Treatment here in France can only be described as superb. The only time health care does falter is when you have a right wing doctrinaire government who want to turn a health care system into a health care business on the American model. I assume they see lots of profits in it for themselves. An example is the current bunch of lunatics currently running the UK. However I suspect that they will fail because the British people know very well the advantages of the NHS. However the UK Conservatives are well aware of this and thus are trying to institute a series of small incremental cuts and changes so that privatisation is introduced under the radar. Hopefully this will fail.

[ABBADiego]

A country with rubbish healthcare and one that still uses pounds ounces Fahrenheit isn’t where I even want to visit.

[Zandain]

As a Dane, I would support the Nordic model...broken bones, operations, accidents, childbirth etc...ALL hospital visits are free in Denmark & the family doctors are free!
Only a few treatments have a smaller charge fx: chiropractics, physiotherapy & alternative medicine.
Dentists have a charge, but it's manageable, if you go to your half-year check ups 😉 ($40-60)

Taxes pay for it all...we might pay 38-55% in taxes (depending on what tax bracket you are in)
Our employers pay for our work insurance, so as a Dane you only need to pay for a 'free time' insurance, yourself

US citizens pay as much, sometimes more, with local tax, federal tax, maybe no medical benefits? => extra insurance costs
No system is perfect, but NO functioning system for all, is worse!
hello from Denmark 🌸 ❄

[wdsp]

Japan. Excellent health care. My wife gave birth in a private maternity clinic and stayed there for one week, cost us $4000 out of pocket. Took the official receipt to our city office and they reimbursed us the entire cost of the birth. MRI for my daughter was $4.

[xrg]

I’m surprised you don’t think of Canada right away. Universal access, paid out of taxes. Ability to pay is not an issue. You just show up with your health card.

[cmc]

America doesn't have a good healthcare system because there's too much fear of "socialism" here even though we have social programs. We have lotteries and GoFundMe's that prove a cohesive mass of people CAN pool heaps of money, but our ideas for healthcare are always shot down as "socialism" by our most selfish and ignorant citizens who listen to politicians that are owned by big US Pharma.

We can't have a better healthcare system. It's too profitable to treat symptoms and not prevent disease. Insurance companies are legal mafias. It's a joke. Most of us see it, but the other half of the country denies it for selfish reasons.

[lisahill]

All I know is as an American, I'm super concerned for my teenager with epilepsy and for my other teenager struggling with mental illness. (He was diagnosed with bipolar 2 less than a month ago.)

Both sons need lifelong medication and care from specialists. Currently their care cost more than our monthly income. The only reason we survive is because my boys qualify for Medicaid. I don't know how they'll survive as adults.

What we have now does not work.

[billybollockhead]

Ive lived all over the world, for me the place I was treated the best in healthcare was Canada.

[stevemcgowen]

The one I know best is the Czech Republic. Everyone is covered. They pick a general practitioner they see, who then sends them to a specialist if they need one. They get an eye exam and dental checkup every year, as well as checkup and doctor visits as needed . Prescriptions are free or nearly free, as are doctor visits. Workers pay 5.5 % of their pay for coverage. Employers pay 5.5% for their employees. Non workers pay nothing. A friend of mine had a c section there a few years ago. She couldn’t believe it when I told her in the US she would probably owe the hospital $15k or more…

[ferox]

Canadian here. I'd be dead or destitute if I lived in America with my medical history.

[bolo]

I live in Canada and I think ours is pretty good. I had a heart attack 2 years ago, was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, stayed 5 days and my total cost was $ 0.00, you can't beat that.

[Kri]

One of the Scandinavian countries probably. As a Norwegian I can't even imagine having to worry about going broke because of healthcare costs. That's the dumbest shit ever. Especially in the richest country in the world.

[pamwatson]

The American system doesn't appear to be fair. That seriously ill people can be left to die because of their financial situation cannot be right. Thank goodness for our NHS.

[TheHesseJames]

Well, in Europe the countries are owned by the people. Corporations do meddle in politics, of course, but their influence has limits. In the U.S. one has the impression that the country, its politicians and the media are owned by the corporations and the top 0.1 percent and its citizens are regarded as worker bees or soldier bees. The individual bee is always expendable so why would you treat them any better?

[joec]

I'm from the UK and live in Germany. They each have their pros and cons. I've actually and ACL reconstruction (knee ligament surgery for those who don't know) in both countries. Both had great care and both were essentially free of cost. The biggest difference I saw was in the bureaucracy of things and in after care. The insurance system in Germany is significantly higher than the UK but the insurance pays for 80% of your salary as sick pay. The UK has a terrible sick pay policy

[we_arenot_amused]

In Canada we only have to pay for hospital parking.

[MrTheWaterbear]

Happy and proud to be paying 37% income tax towards, primarily, the Danish healthcare system <3 (bump up my taxes a couple percent more and include universal dental, please!)