Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
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- The US is the only OECD country without some form of universal health coverage, resulting in the US spending twice as much (per capita) than other OECD countries.
- Despite this higher spending, most data shows health outcomes in the U.S. to be worse than other OECD countries, even after adjusting for nuances like above-average obesity.
- A 2020 study by
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But the United States is not spending as much as other industrialized countries on fortifying crucial social services that help make people healthy. For instance, it spends less than 10 percent of its GDP on social services, while France, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, and Italy all spend about 20 percent of their GDP on social services (se
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In the end, the United States, with a more limited view of the social contract, leaves its people to rely on the purchase of medical care as the main lever for attaining or improving health.