Most if not all of these countries have government run health care, and it doesn't seem to have effected their ability to provide quality health care:
1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
This one doesn't.
37 United States of America
Why is it that the country with by FAR the highest expenditure on health care as a function of GDP is ranked #37 in quality of care?
How can it be that with a government run health care system, Australians live, on average, 2.6 years longer than Americans and have roughly a 1/3 lower infant mortality rate?
How is it that with a government health system, the Czech Republic has an infant mortality rate slightly over 1/2 of the US's, and has an annual economic growth rate nearly twice that of the US?
How can Japan, with their government run health care system, have the highest life expectancy in the world, and one of the lowest infant mortality rates? Their total health spending accounted for just 7.9% of GDP, compared to 15% in the US (the highest in the world, followed by Switzerland at 11.5%). That means Japan spends 1/2 as much on health care as the US, but gets better results. Health spending per capita rose on average by 3% in real terms in Japan over the past five years, less than the U.S. rate of 4.6%. The numbers of physicians and nurses in the industry are comparable, belying the axiom that doctors will not doctor under a public system.
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Japan has the highest number of “acute care” hospital beds, with 8.5 beds per 1 000 population. Compare that to the US with 2.8 beds per 1 000 population. In 2002, Japan had by far the highest number of CT and MRI scanners per capita, with 93 CT scanners per million population and 35 MRI units.
Japan has the lowest obesity rate at 3%. The US has the highest at 31%.
So just who is getting a better deal for their health care dollar? The hard facts from around the world disprove your argument.
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