I wonder how this study worked, can you please provide links if this stuff that you read was on the net?
I have lots of family in Spain and some who moved to France to work there. They're healthcare systems are very different from ours. Their systems have benefits in the short term, but I don't see how they can beat our system overall. The rankings seem to disagree with other things I have read. I would hope that we are low on the list with infant mortality rate!! Being #1 would probably be a bad thing!!
My aunt who suffers from a problem with her vertebrae can't get any medicine to treat it because the government plan doesn't provide for that. She has to pay it all out of her pocket. They don't really have any private insurance at a reasonable cost, definitely nothing that the employers work with, but she wishes that she had. Everytime I come to visit we bring her some vitamins and stuff from here, because it just can't be found over there.
They pay abount 60% of their income in taxes and have no choice at all on the coverage they get!!
If you just have a minor problem, then yeah they're stuff works just fine, but if you have long term issues, you're pretty much on your own. She's not poor either, as they own 2 homes and raise 2 children. When I look at this I find it so hard to understand why they have to put up with it. She's at the point where she will soon be unable to work, sure she'll keep getting "coverage", but it hasn't been helping her any.
For the record my insurance coverage costs went down with my Aetna PPO this year. I have exactly the same coverage as well.
I'd like to read through that study and see how they made their conclusions, etc.
