Which country has the best health care in the world?

" 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 close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world."--Provided by publisher The Preeminent Doctor And Bioethicist, Ezekiel Emanuel, Gives An Incisive Tour Of Ten Health Care Systems Across The Globe, Including Our Own, In Search Of An Answer To Whose Is Best --- And How We Can Be More Like Them. One Thing We Can All Agree On: America Does Not Have The World's Best Healthcare, At Least Not For All Its Citizens Across 50 Very Different States. But Which Country Does, And What Can They Teach Us? Author, Physician, And Bioethicist, Ezekiel Emanuel Has Examined The World's Leading Providers Of Healthcare . Drawing From An Analysis Of The U.s. And Ten Other Countries --- Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Taiwan, And The Uk. --- The Results Are In. No Health Care System Is Perfect, Whether The Problem Is Too Many Hospital Beds In Germany Or Treating Chronic Illness In France, And Some Problems Are Shared Across Many Countries, From Truly Addressing Mental Healthcare To Containing The Rising Costs Of Chronic Care. But The Lessons From The Best Healthcare Practices Allow Us To Adapt Some Of The Good Found In Other Countries And Avoid Making The Same Mistakes As Others. Healthcare Remains Uniquely Important To All Americans, And Uniquely Fraught: Here Is The Best Evidence From Around The World Of What Excellence Looks Like And How We Can Deliver It Here. "The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best health care? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on health care. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles 11 of the world's health care systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows health care professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive health care providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best health care in the world."--Book jacket