Which countries health system do you think is the best? Which do you think would be easiest to adopt in the US

Answer 1

When i started to answer the yahoo answers i realised that i am getting the best and cheapest health care in World -
i am living in India state called Kerala.

Most analysts have seen Kerala’s achievements in health as something of an enigma. Kerala achieved the health status as par with that of USA spending roughly 10 US $ per capita per year while US spends about 3500 $ per capita per year on health care. With virtually all mothers taught to breast-feed, and a state-supported nutrition programme for pregnant and new mothers, infant mortality in 2001 was 14 per thousand, compared with 91 for low-income countries generally.

In Kerala the birth rate is 40 per cent below that of the national average and almost 60 per cent below the rate for poor countries in general

The GDP of Kerala is even less than that of the National average. Kerala’s achievement in health in spite of its economic backwardness and very low health spending has prompted many analysts to talk about a unique “Kerala Model of Health,” worth emulating by other developing parts of the world


http://www.phmovement.org/pubs/issuepapers/ekbal.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model
http://www.ashanet.org/library/articles/kerala.199803.html
http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/15/1/103.pdf
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/anthro/augpap.html

Thanks
Dr. Nandana T.Pai
Kochi
Kerala

Answer 2

It would be hard to adopt any change in the us as funding is put so much into military persuits. to make a substantial change one is going to have to have the government provide universal health care by additional funding. Canada has that and some provinces just ask people to pay a small annual fee to help defray the costs. I live in New Brunswick and we get all the healthcare we want via medicare but it comes out of the provincial budget to which our taxes pay. So you have a trade off pay higher taxes for better health benefits. The socialist countries have it right on. you pay what you can and you get what you need.

Answer 3

Japan is the healthiest country and the US is rated like 23 on a list of 25 and the last two do not have running water and toilets in most of the homes. The US is one of the sickest nations in the world and we need products that are passive and do not require a big change in our normal routine, and the products used in Japan by one out of seven households are just that. When we got ours we just opened the box put the stuff in our home, replaced some things with some of theirs and really had to change nothing except where the products came from. Two years later many miracles have happened throughout our family as others followed us in this new form of caring for ourselves. If you or anyone else would like more info or to know how our lives have changed I would be more than happy to answer any questions. You can contact me through yahoo answers. Hope you have a healthy day.

Answer 4

You might like the UK system with side by side private and well funded public networks.
The US system is wonderful for people who have private insurance, or are clearly eligible for Medicaid. It's similar to the third world for the working poor who do not have insurance and are not eligible for government schemes. I did hear last week, from a reliable source, of a young woman who cannot get a brain tumor treated as she cannot find a neurologist or neurosurgeon who will treat her off plan.

Answer 5

we might complain but ours is the best by far