Book Review: Which Country Has The World's Best Health Care?
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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How Does Medicare Work in the US?
In australia the government runs everyone's insurance, but doctors and hospitals can be independent businesses or non profits. They negotiate some kind of payment rate with the national insurance who reimburses them. This is similar to how medica works in the us. Individuals use their own money to buy insurance from private companies which may be ambiguously for profit, but heavily regulated. If someone can't afford to do this, they might get government subsidies switzerland, or get shunted to medicade. How do the various systems compare? Here is a table. It has rows for the countries, australia, canada, china, france, germany, netherlands,
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