Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

By: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Narrated by: Rick Zieff

The preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe in search of whose is best

“Valuable… It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited to rank the world’s health care systems.” —The New York Review of Books

One thing we can all agree on: The United States does not have the world’s best health care—at least not for all its citizens across fifty very different states. But which country does, and what can they teach the US?

After analyzing the US 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 addressing mental health care to containing the rising costs of chronic care.

Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care? offers evidence of the flaws and triumphs of health systems in the US and globally, and the lessons we can learn from each other.

Critic reviews

"Valuable... It's hard to imagine anyone better suited to rank the world's health care systems than an oncologist with a Harvard medical degree and a Harvard Ph.D. in political philosophy who was deeply involved in crafting the Affordable Care Act and currently chairs the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania."—The New York Review of Books

Detailed, wide and shallow

what are the efgects of price controls? should medical care be private? why medical expenses differ? if you ask these questions don't buy this book.

if you want to know many little details abput health care systems in different countries without rigorous economic analysis and strong central message - this is your book.

Very comprehensive

Very comprehensive and well researched book. A must-read for anyone designing or contemplating changes to a health care system.

Too much detail for audio book

The book is well researched and well put together if you want a deep understanding of each country’s healthcare system. As an audio book, however, it was harder to get through.

Confusing..

I would not recommend this book. it has a lot of details maybe a bit too much. but the most annoying thing is that the author contradicts himself multiple times and doesn't really have a structured way to compare healthcare, even if he said that comparison is hard and he will try to compare on multiple categories. What really happens is contradiction and confusion.