Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Sep 2017
The Swiss also have a private health care system. But theirs works.
26 September 2017 - What can the U.S. Congress learn about health insurance from Switzerland, a small country with the population of New York City? A lot.
In 2017 U.S. News and World Report ranked Switzerland as the world’s overall “best country,” in part due to its “well developed public health system,” which the publication scored 9.3/10.” U.S. News gave America’s public health system 4.4.
The most recent World Health Organization data reveal that the life expectancy of a Swiss woman at birth is 85.3 years; in the U.S. it is only 81.6. And as of 2016, Swiss men have the highest life expectancy of any men in the world at 81.3 (it is 76.9 in America). According to the OECD, in 2016 current expenditures on health in the U.S. were estimated to account for 17.2% of GDP, while in Switzerland they were only 12.4%—significantly lower, but still the second-highest among OECD members.
