17 Apr 2008

Health Care Economist on Health Care Around the World

Jason has a series of post that are worth reading if:

  • You think universal payer systems exclude the market
  • You call universal health care ’socialized medicine’
  • You think universal payer systems do not have down sides

I will update this post as more countries are listed. So far he has (in alphabetical order):

These are clearly written up quickly and have a number of typos and ambiguities (e.g. “Spain has about one third as many MRI and CT units as the U.S.” hopefully he means per capita). Still, interesting for some quick comparisons.

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