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Monday, February 24th, 2014

These 5 Countries Provide The Best Health Care In The World

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Source:     The Huffington Post
Publication Date:     02/20/2014 5:59 pm EST
 Link: These 5 Countries Provide The Best Health Care In The World
Stephan:   The American Illness Profit System, and I include the changes wrought by Obamacare, is by any criterion but the profit it makes, an abject failure. The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks us in the world as 37th in excellence. Here are the five best systems. Why don't we mimic these successes? The answer is not really complicated. Because in the United States profit is more important than health.

InternationalLiving.com’s annual Global Retirement Index reports that France, Uruguay and Malaysia provide the best and most affordable health care in the world.

The Health Care category in the Index considers the cost of care and the quality. Also considered are the number of people per doctor, the number of hospital beds per 1,000 people, the percentage of the population with access to safe water, the infant mortality rate, life expectancy, and public-health expenditure as a percentage of a country’s GDP.

France comes in first in this category as the best country in the world for health care.

1. France
According to the World Health Organization, France has the number one health care system in the world. The country also comes first in the health care category of the InternationalLiving.com annual Global Retirement Index 2014. Despite their meat-and cream-rich diet augmented by alcohol and cigarettes, the French have been living much longer in recent years. Life expectancy now averages 85 years for women and 78 for men.

2. Uruguay
Uruguay has a variety of health care options available that include a public health care system for people who […]

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