Ezra Klein Archive: Health of Nations
Turning Swiss
Kevin Drum predicts the future: The current bills pretty clearly move us along the path toward a Swiss system — not my first choice for a model to follow, but certainly better than what we have now — and I...
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November 17, 2009; 12:50 PM ET |
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Why America 'cares' less about cost control than other countries
Tyler Cowen wonders why other countries care more about cost control in health care. The answer, in part, is that health care is on the budget in other countries, while that's not nearly as true here. That, arguably, leaves you...
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October 30, 2009; 5:06 PM ET |
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Does America Have the Best Health Care in the World?
Americans don't think so: According to Americans, the United States does not have the best health care in the world. Most see our health care as average (32%) or below average (27%) when compared with health care in other...
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October 14, 2009; 1:03 PM ET |
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Should America Copy the Dutch?
I wrote this a few months back for the Outlook section, but because of various scheduling issues, it never got published. But with Jon Cohn talking about the Dutch health-care system, and with risk adjustment and failed exchanges in the...
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October 6, 2009; 3:32 PM ET |
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Swiss Health-Care Costs
The Swiss health-care system has the highest out-of-pocket payments of any OECD country, including the United States. They also spend a lot less than the United States. This, David Leonhardt argues, is no accident. "Because they feel the costs...
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October 2, 2009; 4:30 PM ET |
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Lessons From the French Health-Care System
The graph above comes from Edward Cody's overview of the French health-care system. Compared with the U.S. health-care system, the French system covers everyone, spends less, and sees its costs rise more slowly. It's a pretty impressive performance. Even...
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September 23, 2009; 10:57 AM ET |
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