Please note: The United States is rated 37th in the world in health care by WHO. [View All]

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So please--some DU'ers keep repeating the mantra they've been fed about how we have the greatest healthcare in the world here. We don't. Just FYI.


The United States is rated 37th in health care by WHO.

http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

Source: WHO World Health Report

Ranked by 8 measures: http://www.photius.com/rankings/world_health_systems.html

The World Health Organization's ranking
of the world's health systems

Rank

1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland

In fairness this is an older survey, but it's probably gotten worse not better for us.

(Thanks to DUer Tierra_y_Libertad for the link.)