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POL 202 - Comparative Politics

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5: Theories of Comparative Politics: Political Identity: Nationalism, Religion, Class

United States: Benchmark or Outlier? Reflecting Poorly: Health Care in the U.S. Compared to Other High-Income Countries Report (2021)

he top-performing countries overall are Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia. The United States ranks last overall, despite spending far more of its gross domestic product on health care. The U.S. ranks last on access to care, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes, but second on measures of care process.

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Chapter 7:  Political Identity: Nationalism, Religion, Class
Source: Dino Bozonelos, Ph.D. and Jessica Scarffe. Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics, 1st Edition. Please visit https://introcp.com/ for latest PDF version
License: Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial (CC BY NC)
 

United States: Benchmark or Outlier? Reflecting Poorly: Health Care in the U.S. Compared to Other High-Income Countries Report (2021)
Source: Eric C. Schneider et al., Mirror, Mirror 2021 — Reflecting Poorly: Health Care in the U.S. Compared to Other High-Income Countries (Commonwealth Fund, Aug. 2021). https://doi.org/10.26099/01dv-h208
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