InternationalLiving.com’s annual Global Retirement Index reports that France, Uruguay and Malaysia provide the best and most affordable health care in the world.
The Health Care category in the Index considers the cost of care and the quality. Also considered are the number of people per doctor, the number of hospital beds per 1,000 people, the percentage of the population with access to safe water, the infant mortality rate, life expectancy, and public-health expenditure as a percentage of a country’s GDP.
1) France:
France comes in first in this category as the best country in the world for health care.
According to the World Health Organization,France has the number one health care system in the world. The country also comes first in the health care category of the InternationalLiving.com annual Global Retirement Index 2014.
Despite their meat-and cream-rich diet augmented by alcohol and cigarettes, the French have been livingmuch longer in recent years. Life expectancy now averages 85 years for women and 78 for men.
2) Uruguay:
Uruguay has a variety of health care optionsavailable that include a public health care system for people who cannot afford to pay for private health care, a number of private health insurance options, and the most popular option, a hospital plan called a “mutualista.”
Therefore Uruguay comes in second in the health care category of the InternationalLiving.com annualGlobal Retirement Index 2014.
InternationalLiving.com’s Uruguay correspondent, David Hammond, who has lived in the country for seven years, says: “My personal experience with health care in Uruguay has been positive. The cost is a fraction of what I paid for private coverage in the U.S.”
3) Malaysia:
5) Mexico:
Given the galloping rise in health care costs in the U.S. and elsewhere, Mexico’s affordable and top-notch health care is a huge benefit to living there. Pretty much across the board, health care in Mexico costs a quarter to a half of what you would pay in the U.S.
Mexico comes in fifth in the health care category of the InternationalLiving.com annual Global Retirement Index 2014.
Medical insurance with Mexico’s national health care service costs less than $300 a year; private insurance will cost more, depending on age and pre-existing conditions—but still a fraction of what you’d pay in the U.S. for similar coverage.
Source: Huffington Post
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