Rated the best health care system in the World is Luxembourg. With 570,000 population.
Luxembourg has by far the most expensive health system in Europe
The compulsory health insurance entitles the insured population to a very broad benefits package, which covers more services than those in neighbouring countries (Box 2). Nonetheless, complementary VHI is purchased by around 56% of the resident population to cover expenses for cost sharing for certain types of hospital care, dental treatment, visual aids and other services.
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/355988/Health-Profile-Luxembourg-Eng.pdf?ua=1
The state provides free basic health coverage to all citizens, and all employed citizens and employees contribute to this via payments to
Luxembourg's social security system. All dependent family members are also covered by family members who pay social security. Children are covered under their parents, and students are covered until age 27. Coverage includes most treatment by your general practitioner or specialists, any laboratory tests, prescriptions and hospitalisation.
All employees and self-employed workers in Luxembourg are required to make sufficient
social security contributions to be entitled to Luxembourg healthcare services; if you are employed, healthcare contributions will be automatically taken out of your wages by your employer.
While 99 percent of the population is covered by the state healthcare system, about 75 percent have some extra form of
private health insurance (
get a quote), purchased to help for coverage on things that might be covered by state health insurance in Luxembourg. Read more in our guide to
health insurance in Luxembourg.
but make sure that your doctor is contracted into the state health scheme if you use public healthcare to avoid extra fees
When going to a hospital, you should take your own clothes, robe and slippers, as well as personal toiletries and towels. You’ll also need a small amount of money to pay for telephone calls, television programmes, bottled water and other items offered by private services within the hospital.
There are three classes of service: first, second and third. First class includes a private room that you pay extra for unless you have a premium private health insurance. Second class is a shared room with two or three other patients and is the standard service insured. Third class service is a ward with more than three patients, and occurs only in certain circumstances. Find a
list of hospitals in Luxembourg below, or see Expatica's listing of
hospitals in Luxembourg.
The healthcare system in Luxembourg
Just remember.. The population of the USA is over 326 million or 486 TIMES as large as Luxembourg.
Plus another factor of USA health care.
A law I'm sure most of the people on this forum and DEFINITELY MOST Americans are unaware of is call
EMTALA!
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (
EMTALA) is a federal law that requires anyone coming to an emergency department to be stabilized and treated, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay, but since its enactment in 1986 has remained an unfunded mandate.
So what happens is hospitals OVERCHARGE insurance companies and those that can pay i.e. $10 aspirin!
As one hospital CEO when asked "
How do hospitals deal with the cost of the uninsured?
His answer: " Like any business, we pass it on to the paying customers."
http://classic.ncmedicaljournal.com/wp-content/uploads/NCMJ/mar-apr-05/Yarbrough.pdf
