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Book Review: Which Country Has The World's Best Health Care?

Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 12:52 p.m.

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If you\\u2019re like me, all you\\u2019ve heard about international health care systems is \\u201cAmerica sucks and should feel bad, everyone else is probably fine or whatever\\u201d. Is there more we can learn?

Our guide to this question will be Which Country Has The World\\u2019s Best Health Care, by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. Emanuel is a professor of bioethics, but I\\u2019ve been told to be less reflexively hostile to bioethicists. He got in trouble a few years ago for a comment that got summed up as \\u201clife after 75 is not worth living\\u201d, but he never used those exact words, and his point about the dangers of excessive life-prolonging medical care is well-taken. He opposes euthanasia, which I interpret as demanding state-sponsored coercive violence to prevent torture victims from escaping, but I know other people interpret it differently. And he\\u2019s the brother of former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, but ... nope, can\\u2019t think of any extenuating circumstances for this one.

Still, Emanuel is one of a very few people qualified to compare international health systems. And

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