The Company We Keep: Nations Without Universal Healthcare

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The Company We Keep: Nations Without Universal Healthcare

May 8, 2013 by Daniel Nichols

(The blue countries have universal care, the green are attempting, and the grey, none. Iraq and Afghanistan have universal health care, provided by the USA)

5 Responses

on May 8, 2013 at 12:11 pm | Reply Theodore Seeber

This surprises me- what’s with the swath of Eastern Europe? And I thought Islamic countries, under Shariah Law, automatically had a noblese oblige that paid for health care for the poor?
on May 8, 2013 at 3:17 pm | Reply JPG

I think the general trend is that third world countries cant afford universal health care. Obamacare won’t change that — we’ll just be a third world country with a broken universal health care system (even more broken than the current system, that is).
on October 7, 2013 at 9:23 pm | Reply Tim

Since the Pentagon is paying for Univeral health care for Iraq and Afgan citizens. Sooo, somebody explain to me why citizens of the U.S. can not have universal health care ? Hmmmm, maybe because in effect the monopoly on healthcare will be broken in this country and costs will come down.
- on October 8, 2013 at 1:52 pm | Reply Mark
  
  Universal healthcare IS a monopoly, what are you talking about?
  - on October 8, 2013 at 2:13 pm K
    
    Universal healthcare intends to be a monopoly, but on many places you have to pay the universal healthcare (taxes) and then pay a private insurance.
    
    Here (Argentina) the statist president has just been operated on a private (and very expensive) clinic (she wouldn’t ever risk going to a public hospital)