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Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

Ezekiel J. Emanuel

The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even cl...

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Stuff You Should Know

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Stuff You Should Know

It was mentioned as a book Bill Gates recently read, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of different health care systems, including the US, and its potential for improvement.

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I was just reading Zeke Emanuel has one about which is the best health system in the world that does a good job of talking about the strengths and weaknesses, where the US has a lot of weaknesses, but...

— Episode: Short Stuff: The Return of Bill Gates!

Episode: Short Stuff: The Return of Bill Gates!

It was mentioned as a book Bill Gates recently read, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of different health care systems, including the US, and its potential for improvement.

"

I was just reading Zeke Emanuel has one about which is the best health system in the world that does a good job of talking about the strengths and weaknesses, where the US has a lot of weaknesses, but has big chance to get better.

Episode: Short Stuff: The Return of Bill Gates!

It was mentioned as a book that Bill Gates had recently read, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of various healthcare systems, including the US.

"

I was just reading Zeke Emanuel has one about which is the best health system in the world that does a good job of talking about the strengths and weaknesses, where the US has a lot of weaknesses, but has big chance to get better.

Chasing Life

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Chasing Life

Dr. Emanuel discusses the book, highlighting that the best healthcare system depends on individual values and anticipated illnesses. He mentions Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, and Taiwan as examples of countries with low-cost, high-quality care, emphasizing the need to learn from other countries' successes.

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Let me just finish today by asking you about your new book. The book is called Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

— Episode: The U.S. Wasn’t Prepared for COVID-19

Episode: The U.S. Wasn’t Prepared for COVID-19

Dr. Emanuel discusses the book, highlighting that the best healthcare system depends on individual values and anticipated illnesses. He mentions Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, and Taiwan as examples of countries with low-cost, high-quality care, emphasizing the need to learn from other countries' successes.

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Let me just finish today by asking you about your new book. The book is called Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

it really does depend upon what you value most. And partially it does depend upon the kind of illnesses you're anticipating and not.

Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Taiwan, very low cost at the point of care, good primary care, good choice of doctor, low cost.

The main problems are really exorbitant costs that are affecting every country. The United States, the worst. We have a very complex and inefficient system.

the main purpose of this book was to find out what are other countries doing well that we can actually adapt to our country?

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