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The U.S. health-care system is broken, but do other countries have it better? Seven leading health economists and public policy experts reflect on one of the hardest questions facing them — and us — today.

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  1. I don't know who's the best health system in the world, but certainly, I know that India, among a few other countries, has the worst health system. Indi is spending less than 1% of the total GDP on health.

  4. “English system”. The NHS was made by Wales, not England. That small country doesn’t get enough praise.

    As a famous Welshman once said (the NHS Founder) – “No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means” Aneurin Bevan.

  7. The discussion throughout the entire video seems utterly pointless! As an American, it's disheartening but not surprising to witness our healthcare system lagging behind many of our other highly successful national endeavors. It feels like we're stuck in an endless debate loop, one that distracts from the urgent need to address a system that nearly everyone acknowledges is not functioning properly.

  8. We don’t have healthcare, we have sick care.
    You have to realize that most other industrialized nations also have better quality food, water, air, infrastructure, social networks (friends, etc). Whereas , here the US, we ‘value’ our isolationism: cars, big houses, etc.

  9. The problem with the American Healthcare System is this whole interview. "What are the wealthy willing to do for the poor/sick". A very privileged perspective. Healthcare is not a favour, or a 'handout'. It is a basic human right. And until the USA begins to see it that way, it will always be behind.

  10. It is scary that so many experts cant see that the major problem, that relates with almost everything that they spoke, (Values, State, politics, science, economy…) it is healthcare as merchandise… put this concept in to your analisys and see your world turn upside down.

  12. 1:22 I've never been to Singapore, but I can already tell you that it has a better healthcare system than the US. This whole bracket thing can be summarized as "People who never have to worry about affording healthcare vote on healthcare systems". Ask any poor person if they'd rather be poor in the US or poor in Sweden from purely a healthcare standpoint. They'd choose Sweden without question.

  13. All rhetoric, speculation, and general crap aside, here is a dose of reality: I have been monetarily medically poor for 16 years now, and that is WITH insurance. I have also spent probably into thousands of hours of my personal time dealing with insurance companies and medical billing departments, so even if everything had been paid for, it has cost me a lot otherwise as I do value my time. So, I cannot be convinced the U.S. system is the best. I have friends and family who live in European and Asian countries, who do not have these problems, or very little in the way of similar problems.

  15. The fact that y’all keep debating this crap to stall on making any kind of change or improvement is maddening 😆 Literally any of these systems would be better than the zero healthcare you currently have.

  16. My goodness. These "experts" are so full of themselves. They outdo each other in coming up with buzz phrases and abstract suggestions. The primary answer as to what a health care system should look like is simple: Well trained professionals and well equipped facilities that are universally accessible to all people in that country. Everything else they say is hyperbole and BS.

  22. I live in CT which I saw was ranked 4th best health care in the USA. God help you if the health care is worse in your state than here. We have Yale Medicine and a few other health care systems in the state in addition to state subsidized health insurance for low income so most everyone technically has insurance. The real problem is you are required to have a referral from your primary care doctor for any specialist you need to see to actually be diagnosed and treated for almost any problem or the insurance will not pay for it. You are not entitled to an actual doctor for your primary care doctor; you have to use a nurse practitioner as your primary care doctor. If you try to find a primary care nurse practitioner who is accepting new patients you will only find a few in Fairfield county (yup, where the wealthiest residents live). No offense to meant to anyone but you will notice the only ones accepting new patients are those that are new and inexperienced or brought in from another country by the system they are a member of. The nurse practitioners are not the equivalent of a doctor and like to send you to the ER for things the ER doctors say you should not have come there for. ER visit will cost you $4k deductible plus co-pay providing the insurance covers it for your problem. You are not entitled by insurance to have an actual physical exam every year, only a wellness check. They don't even do a visual inspection of you so I don't know how you would ever find melanoma behind your ears, neck or back before it was long too late. You are told that a temp of 100 is not considered a fever or even abnormal anymore even if it does not go away for long periods. Once a person transitions over to Medicare the options are even worse from what I can tell. A dentist here won't see you without first doing a complete oral x-ray set and consultation with drawn up dental plan, as they want to do it, before you even tell them why you are there. You can't just go get an individual filling or even a dental cleaning without having complete x-rays done, even if you had a complete x-ray set done a few days prior. Oral surgeons will not use x-rays from your dentist's office, they insist on doing their own even if its 3 days later. Life Long Dental had to do 3 full x-ray sets in one day because the technician messed them up 2 times in a row. Then the dentist had to refer me to an oral surgeon who, 3 days later, had to do a 4th full x-ray set. What do you get in the 4th best heath care system now? Ignorance and Incompetence at a premium price and you have to sign away your home to make up the difference of what the insurance pays and what they charge you and sign a waiver of responsibility for any consequences of their care or lack of it.

  24. No one deserves healthcare. It is a privilege, not a right. If you are dumb, stupid, poor, and uneducated with a loser job, what makes you think you deserve anything more than minimum wage? How about get back to work or find a better job that provides insurance. Or better yet be an adult and save your money to afford healthcare. Your poor life choices are not my fault, or a companies fault. This is a lazy and entitled generation that sympathizes with communists.

  25. Americans have lost confidence in our healthcare system, which has been the envy of the world despite propaganda placing it way down the list in worldwide standing. But it is failing, and most Americans can't quite put their finger on why. But the reason why is that it has become institutionalized. Actual Health Care provided by medical professionals has been taken out of the hands of these professionals, and taken by a national bureaucracy. Care for such-and-such conditions WILL BE FOLLOWED according to a prescribed script. Doctors cannot use their training, knowledge, and experience to treat conditions — no, it has to be done as the government demands, with all documentation codified. Without competition to improve the system, it merely becomes a by-rote exercise in mediocrity.

  26. I think a healthcare system works more efficiently when the absolute majority of personnel are homogeneous like in Japan, Singapore or South Korea. Because their diets are similar which means similar treatments on average, unlike in immigration based countries where you can anticipate a variety of cases like patients who have pimples on their anus.

  27. First: It should not be called "Health Care" it shoud be called "Disease Care"
    Health Care should be implemented in schools by teaching people how to:
    1. Eat properly
    2. Exercise properly
    3. Promote social interaction and create a support system
    4. Promoting mental health and having psychologycal support systems
    5. Incentivating people to to what makes them happy.
    THAT is Health Care

  28. the biggest problem with the us no one wants to talk abt is the people do not have a healthy diet. italian healthcare is so much better since people are so much healthier

  29. I am disturbed about how often they used "consistent with our values" Their values are the problem as they promote capitalism above all else. I absolutely believe in the capitalist model, but it must be regulated so the less fortunate can also participate. To move forward, America's relationship with capitalism needs to be modified.

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