Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

Name: Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel
ISBN: 9781549185038

Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Narrator: Rick Zieff

Unabridged: 16 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 07/14/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Medical, Public Policy

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer.
The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close.
In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.

About Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the author or coauthor of several books, including The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics, Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family, and Global Justice and Bioethics. He is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011. Until January 2011, he served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council. He is also an Op-Ed contributor to the New York Times and a contributor to MSNBC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pallav on August 26, 2020

Healthcare industry nerd's delight. I like the holistic perspective this book is bringing to a messy, complicated topic. But the drawback is that it's quite boring and dry. Just plain facts, figures, history, statistics. Mind-numbing after a while to hear. I've been forced to skip ahead multiple tim......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on July 26, 2020

This is very interesting--at least if, like me, you're a healthcare dork. If you're not, this might be a bit dry--you probably don't really care about how the Swiss use a point system quite like the US' RVU, do you? Rather than answering the question up front, Dr. Emanuel profiles 11 health systems,......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on February 03, 2021

Comprehensive but boring. Good to have on your shelf if you forget how Norwegians pay for drugs. Bad to listen to as an audiobook (unless used as a sleep aid).......more

Goodreads review by Richard on October 06, 2022

Zeke is the least well-known of the high-achieving Emanuel brothers. I have done business with Ari who runs the William Morris Endeavor Agency and have admired Rahm's work as Obama's Chief of Staff and mayor of Chicago, but this is my first encounter with Zeke. They say that he is the smartest of th......more

Goodreads review by Kailyn on February 02, 2022

(3.5/5) Straight facts. No cap. Pretty boring read considering it’s read more like an academic rather than a story. But it’s about healthcare, so what do you expect? Still learned a lot though, especially about other countries’ healthcare systems.......more

Quotes

"Valuable... It's hard to imagine anyone better suited to rank the world's health care systems than an oncologist with a Harvard medical degree and a Harvard Ph.D. in political philosophy who was deeply involved in crafting the Affordable Care Act and currently chairs the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania."—The New York Review of Books