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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we're talking straight healthcare, it's the US far and away. The circumstantial evidence - that wealthy foreigners travel here for care - is fairly clear. Have you ever heard of travel for health care (except to get cheap plastic surgery/dental care)? I lived in Western Europe for 5 years - there were some nice plusses - in home visits by the pediatrician, for example, but when we needed serious interventions, it was terrifyingly slow and difficult. I had a preemie at 30 weeks, and every day I walked into that NICU I thanked my lucky stars she was born in the United States.

Now, if we want to get into the insanity related to cost/transparency/access/pressure by pharma to treat problems rather than prevent them...that's certainly another discussion in which the US does not come out on top.[/quote]

This is where we would need to go back to empirical data like life expectancy and infant/maternal mortality. The US does not bode very well here. Of course, that data does not tell an accurate picture of the healthcare system since it is very heavily skewed by lifestyle differences. A better dataset would track health provider outcomes, preventable deaths vs. hospitalizations and such. Which healthcare system does a better job at saving lives?[/quote]

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