What country has the best health care system in the world?

[usregimechange]

Takes care of the poor, elderly, and disabled, while having high quality care for those who can afford it...

[ck4829]

1. Believe it or not...

Saudi Arabia pays doctors that come to you whenever you need them.

[dcfirefighter]

2. I like Switzerland

Market based and universal.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=222&topic_id=2494&mesg_id=2494

[billbuckhead]

4. France, Italy, Spain, Japan

United States Spends Most On Health, But France No. 1 In Treatment

By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press, 6/20/2000

WASHINGTON (AP) The United States spends more per person on health care than any other country, yet in overall quality its care ranks 37th in the world, says a World Health Organization analysis. It concluded that France provides the globe's best health care.

Italy ranked No. 2, says the World Health Report, being published Wednesday a highly contentious first attempt to compare the world's health systems.

Tiny countries with few patients to care for San Marino, Andorra, Malta crowd onto the World Health Organization's surprising best list. Singapore, Spain, Oman, Austria and Japan round out the top-10.

That doesn't mean the French and Italians are the world's healthiest people. Japan actually won that distinction.
<http://cthealth.server101.com/Old%20Universal%20Health%20Care/united_states_spends_most_on_health,_but_france_no__1_in_treatment.htm>

[usregimechange]

5. Interesting.

[SmileyBoy]

3. I would say one of the Scandinavian countries...

Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, etc.

[sandnsea]

6. France is voted #1

Last time I checked anyway. Everybody has a basic Medicaid type plan, plus there is private employer insurance and private pay hospitals. The WHO said about 50% of surgeries and cancer treatments are private, IIRC it was the WHO.

[TNDemo]

9. I have a friend who had a heart attack in Paris

and spent two weeks in the American Hospital there. They said they had gourmet meals with wine at every meal and they had bonafide room service. You could call for anything you wanted 24/7 and a woman in a black dress with a white apron (the proverbial french maid) would bring it to you. They are much more skilled at angioplasty than American doctors (and I work for a group of them) and my friend was able to avoid a bypass, which he would have had here. The entire two weeks cost about $12,000 total, which their American insurance gladly paid.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. Antarctica?

They just put you in deep freeze until a cure is found. But, w/ global warming, that may end soon.

[EC]

8. The Scandinavian countries are the best,

Denmark, Sweden, Finland...but it's real cold...

These countries were rated best for the elderly last year, not just for the medical care...but for the quality of life for the elderly.

[Greyhound]

10. Fer sure it ain't here. Except for very specialized and usually experiment

treatments, only the second tier rich come here anymore. If we could just pull our collective heads out of our asses long enough to look around, we might notice it ain't so nice here anymore.