This has been the title of the past few reports issued by the Commonwealth Fund, a foundation that is focused on promoting better health care. This series of reports compares the health systems in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the U.S. The latest report is based on "information from primary care physicians about their practices and views of their countries' health systems".
Like the previous reports, we don't fare very well. In fact, we rank last. The authors attribute a large part of our poor showing to the unavailability of universal health care. A somewhat more subtle reason is our chauvinism which leads to an unwillingness to adopt systems and policies that work well in other countries.
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