Advisory Board July 1, 2020
In a recent interview with Vox’s Ezra Klein, Ezekiel Emanuel—a bioethicist who served as a health policy adviser to former President Barack Obama, and current co-director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Health Transformation Institute—talked about which country currently has the best health care system in the world, and why he believes the United States could top the list in the decades to come.
Who has the world’s best health care system? It depends.
Emanuel told Klein that which country currently has the best health care system depends on “what your criteria are and what you actually care about.” According to Emanuel:
- If your priority is choice of doctor and hospital, countries such as France, Germany, and Switzerland...