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by capableweb 2285 days ago
> Their healthcare system is now the 2nd worst in the EU

WHAT? Now I haven't been to every European country, probably around 30% of them, would be my guess. But literally the country with the best healthcare system of them all, that I've visited a hospital in, have been Sweden.

You got any numbers to backup this claim? Spain, Italy and Greece clearly have a worse healthcare system, and those are just three examples I can think of quickly. Surely lots of countries in eastern europe has it worse than Sweden.

One source showing the opposite of what you're saying:

> Sweden is ranked third by the Commonwealth Fund, with a high proportion of doctors, above-average healthcare spending, and relatively low prescriptions of drugs.

From https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/09/which-countr... which is using Commonwealth Fund as it's source.
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eng_monkey 2285 days ago
> Spain, Italy and Greece clearly have a worse healthcare system, and those are just three examples I can think of quickly. Surely lots of countries in eastern europe has it worse than Sweden.

Spain has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, usually ranked by the WHO within the top 10 while Sweden's was within top 30.

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capableweb 2285 days ago
Can we please start adding sources to our statements? I guess you're going by this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...

Both Spain and Sweden seems to be about equal if you average the rankings in that list. So surely if Spain has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, Sweden is pretty equal, then Sweden is nowhere near being the "2nd worst in the EU" when it comes to healthcare.

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gbrindisi 2285 days ago
Data in there is a bit old but... no need to average, just sort by overall performance.
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capableweb 2285 days ago
Since I wasn't the one making the original claim, I could only try my best to find the matching source, this is as close as I could get. Sorry about that.
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gbrindisi 2285 days ago
> Spain, Italy and Greece clearly have a worse healthcare system, and those are just three examples I can think of quickly.

I am Italian and I live in Sweden. I am happy my family is in Italy right now.

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rurban 2284 days ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/best-healthcare-... per capita.

Behind is only Germany, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Poland. Ok, last time I've looked they were 2nd worst, now 6th.

Italy and Spain do have much better systems, by far. World Top 5. Even Greece is much better.

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capableweb 2284 days ago
Thanks for providing the source. 6th sounds more reasonable indeed.
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