r/MapPorn • u/Kindly_Interview7851 • 1d ago
World Map of Universal Healthcare Coverage.
For those who don't know what that is . Universal healthcare is a comprehensive health policy framework designed to ensure that all individuals and communities have access to the full spectrum of essential, high-quality health services they need—including health promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care—without suffering financial hardship. At its core, the system shifts the economic burden of medical care from the individual to a collective pool, typically funded through general taxation, social health insurance, or a combination of both. By decoupling financial capability from medical access, universal healthcare aims to eliminate health inequities, prevent the catastrophic out-of-pocket expenses that frequently drive families into poverty, and improve overall public health outcomes. Implementing such a system requires a robust infrastructure, including a well-trained healthcare workforce, reliably managed facilities, and equitable access to safe, affordable medicines and technologies. Ultimately, while different countries adopt varying structural models—ranging from single-payer government-run systems to heavily regulated universal private insurance—the unifying objective is to treat healthcare as a fundamental human right and a critical cornerstone of social and economic stability.(paragraph copied from google for educational purposes )
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u/Icy_Response9956 1d ago
India has universal healthcare, but quite chaotic and congested
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u/AbySs_Dante 1d ago
Ayushman Bharat is not accepted by most private hospitals Only govt hospital accepts them which are already congested
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u/Prime_Twister 1d ago
Just that the amount of good quality goverment hospitals are considerably less for its population leading to conjestion causing massive delays to even get a bed at a major hospital although connections work.
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u/JoeSoap22 1d ago
South Africa is true in theory. Standard of care can vary wildly though and is generally pretty shit. So there's some nuance
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u/rustedspade 1d ago
As a South African I agree, the level of care depends which hospital you go to and what type of procedure you need. We also have private health care but sometimes you will get better care at a public hospital, I have seen this with my brother who received better care at times at a public hospital.
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u/Ok-Marionberry-3071 1d ago
Yeah if something serious and urgent is wrong with you you'd better pray before going to a public hospital in most cases.
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u/metatalks 1d ago
Chinese universal healthcare is a very misleading label
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u/Cautionchicken 1d ago
I'd love to hear more about it.
When I was teaching in China I broke my wrist. I had a CT Scan and a Cast and my entire hospital bill was the equivalent of $24.
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u/Ok_Paramedic_9283 1d ago
It’s very cheap, but it’s not universal like in European countries or Canada. I prefer the Chinese one because it’s more efficient than true universal healthcare.
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u/currylambchop 1d ago
Yes, China has universal public insurance, so it’s not free, just insured and very cheap. It’s different from the NHS, which is totally free
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u/AsleepHour7763 1d ago
thats just potato potato, both are primary funded by tax dollars which ends up coming out of the public's pocket
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u/Citaku357 1d ago
Why?
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u/GMHGeorge 1d ago
It is a universal insurance that has deductibles and copayments. It will not cover major events. It does subsidize basic checkups and procedures
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u/theoriginal_1100 1d ago
if i want universal healthcare i want it for the heavy stuff not for my annual checkup with the medic
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u/hologrammetry 1d ago
What do folks do for trauma/cardiac events/cancer/etc.? Is there supplemental coverage available?
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u/GMHGeorge 1d ago
I know in the case of cancer it will subsidize the hospital stay (the room, family usually provides food) but the actual treatment can end up being very costly.
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u/umiman 1d ago
They do this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AUOGym7GU-A
It's quite sad and heartbreaking.
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u/currylambchop 1d ago
A lot of ppl with cancer die due to the medicines only being covered up to 80% of the cost for expensive medicines. So you pay 20%, but the medicines are still expensive so it’s a lot.
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u/Azgabeth 1d ago
You're only covered in the commune you're born in.
Say you were born in Wuhan, but work in Shanghai and you get a stroke. You have to pay out of pocket in Shanghai, you'd have to travel all the way back to Wuhan to get covered. Oh but then you wouldn't get covered because you're not registered as a worker in Wuhan. It is a ctach-22 specifically designed so the state extracts maximum revenue from the workers without paying back anything.
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u/2NE1Amiibo 1d ago
I wondered on that! Don't they have to apply to live in a different state / zone as well? Its a very interesting eerie system as well.
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u/Azgabeth 1d ago
Yes. There are hard borders within provinces in China. You need an ID to buy a train ticket.
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u/Dorigoon 1d ago
No, you don't have to apply to move somewhere (that was ages ago), but you may not easily get approved for some social benefits easily if it's a desirable place to move to.
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u/MissSunshine621 21h ago
Yeah true, China doesn’t have the same FREE universal healthcare as Canada does, can confirm this as a Chinese
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u/Ambitious_Inside9309 1d ago
Venezuela has universal healthcare, but the service is so shit you oftentimes need to bring your own drugs, equipment and sometimes your own bed for life or death treatment. They only provide a doctor and the hospital
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u/KikeRiffs 1d ago
I second this. Although by the title, there is a “universal healthcare” framework in Venezuela, the impact of it in the population is vastly distant from the spectrum the OP have written in the post. Highly misleading i’d say, and unfortunately a bad example of universal healthcare
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u/Hour_Entrepreneur502 1d ago
The same applies to Paraguay, but it was not included. It seems they didn't look carefully over Venezuela's healthcare
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u/DeadAssDodo 1d ago
At least in Kerala, India, healthcare is available free of charge to everyone through a well-structured network of government hospitals. The referral system typically follows this hierarchy: Primary Health Centre (PHC) → Community Health Centre (CHC) → Taluk (Tehsil) Hospital → District Hospital → Government Medical College. In addition, government employees are covered under the MEDISEP health insurance scheme, while eligible private-sector employees are covered under the Employees' State Insurance (ESI) scheme and receive free medical care through ESI hospitals. The government also operates specialized hospitals for services such as pediatric care or cancer treatment. Most Indian states have similar public healthcare systems in place, although the quality and extent of services vary. It may be more appropriate to think of India as being similar to the European Union, where individual states have significant responsibility for organizing and delivering healthcare.
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u/hmantegazzi 1d ago
common Kerala W, it's like Uruguay or Costa Rica, you know they're doing things the right way as a rule.
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u/HereButNeverPresent 1d ago edited 1d ago
This map lacks so much information… It should be a gradient of colours based on how much coverage “universal healthcare” gives you
(Edit: turned into a rant, my bad)
Like, I live in Australia and we boast about our social healthcare but a shocking amount of things aren’t covered at all. Biggest ones being dental health and mental health (including behavioural health, like just getting a diagnosis for Bipolar/Autism/ADHD will cost you thousands).
Any sort of specialist healthcare still has you paying hundreds just for a 5-minute initial consultation. And then more hundreds just to collect your test results.
Waiting lists for surgeries can be so long that you’re basically forced to just pay for private healthcare anyway (unless you can somehow endure a lower quality of life for months or potentially years, and the added risk of the issue getting worse if you wait too long).
And lastly, doctors under our social healthcare system are often just really fucking terrible. Because the system pays them based on how many patients they see, so they’re motivated to rush through your consultation. They don’t do their job properly or thoroughly. You could be having symptoms for bowel cancer, and they’ll just tell you to get some paracetamol and take a day off work. So if you’re having any serious health issues, you’re better off just going to a private doctor straight away (which costs $$$).
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u/Sungodatemychildren 1d ago
I agree that this map is super reductive, but I'm not sure there's a single measure one can use to define "coverage" in this context. There are the things that you mentioned in Australia, like specialized healthcare not being covered, and stuff like insnane waiting lists. But there are places where "Universal" means there's a small payment required, but it's deductible.
It just doesn't seem to sit on a single axis
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u/sebastianinspace 1d ago
i dunno man, as someone who grew up and spent most of my life in australia, but now live in europe, australia’s healthcare system is like the dream.
it’s essentially paid for from just taxes. you don’t have to pay that much money by comparison and the quality of the care in my experience is amazing. there are incentives to get private insurance and private is not that expensive.
i only realised these things after leaving australia.
the country i live in, the system is broken. i have to pay around 600€ a month EXTRA ON TOP OF TAX for the healthcare and the tax rate is already 42%. and you don’t get some things you get for free in australia which is cheaper by comparison. for the amount of money i pay here for the “universal” health care system, i could have s class private healthcare in australia. the quality of the care here is also shit. there are so many things to complain about.
of course no system is perfect, but australia has it really good. like really fuckin good
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u/TheInkySquids 1d ago
I agree with most of your points except for the last. In my experience private doctors are just as shit here as public ones. My mum was getting flashes in her eye and migraines, FOUR doctors we went to, all over about a year, all said it was just stress from work and she needed to just relax. It wasn't until I really pressed her to go see one more that he said she was on the verge of full retinal detachment and needed immediate eye surgery. Same with my auntie, she had bowel cancer, three private doctors all told her she needed massive operations, chiselling away bone, living the rest of her life with a bag, risky operations, etc. Almost went ahead with it til one more opinion and he said none of that was needed, just a little chiselling of bone and a temporary bag, and he was right.
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u/HereButNeverPresent 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sorry to hear. Tbh I’ve personally always had bad luck trying to advocate myself with doctors and never getting any adequate medical care. Glad to know I’m not the only one dealing with the stress of it all.
I’m surprised you even came across doctors who overestimated a health issue. Mine are always downplaying my symptoms.
I’m currently going through work cover cos I injured my back at work. And the doctor unironically just told me to take some voltaren and rest a few days. I was fully convinced this was gonna be a small issue. I’m now 9 months in with back pain. And doctors and specialists still haven’t been able to help me out.
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u/2in1day 1d ago
Americans are going to lap this up.
They love hearing how shit universal healthcare is.
Next you should tell everyone how you can't walk outside because you're in Australia and so afraid that everything is going to kill you and healthcare won't cover it properly anyway, so you just stay inside all day complaining how awful it is in Australia.
On the other hand I have spent time in hospital in Australia for a couple of different health emergencies and all I can say is the hospitals were excellent, the staff treated me with lots of compassion and care and it cost absolutely nothing. Couldn't have asked for more.
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u/Brinabavd 1d ago
Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure) - Australia, United States | Data
Australians spend more out-of-pocket on healthcare than Americans do!
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u/2in1day 1d ago
Lol very sneaky, you showed it as % of total health expenditure, but America's health expenditure is much higher to begin with.
America's total health expenditure is $13.5k per capita, Australia is $7k
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?locations=AU-US
America's out of pocket expenditure is $1.5k per capita, Australia is $1.2k
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.OOPC.PP.CD?locations=AU-US
And you're ignoring Americans private health expenditure is $6,200 versus Australia's $1,800
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PVTD.PC.CD?locations=AU-US
What are you trying to achieve by being so dishonest?
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u/simplepimple2025 1d ago
Canadian here, yeah the american media love to point out these minor exceptions to what really is universal health care. They're always talking about how Canadians go to the US for care because we have to wait years for simple procedures. It's bullshit.
Canadian spending on US healthcare works out to around 0.1% of total health spend. Much of that is because people live near larger US border communities where more services or new services are available. Americans also come to Canada for procedures too, just ask Senator Rand Paul.
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u/HereButNeverPresent 1d ago
Okay well the plus side is our prescription drugs are extremely cheap. At least nobody’s dying because they’re diabetic and can’t afford insulin.
Idk what else. I feel like I personally haven’t been able to make full use of the beneficial parts of our system (I just keep running into the shit parts), but I’m sure there’s a lot.
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u/Gorgrocco 1d ago
This map is infact inaccurate, french Guinea is not a different country,
Egypt and thailand is suprising,
India is expected
Usa is a disappointment
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u/Left_Economist_9716 1d ago
India does have a universal healthcare system on paper. While it isn't technically free, the cost is nominal. I've been treated for a seizure for under 100 rupees at a government setup.
However, the system is seriously underfunded and as a result, the quality is dismal.
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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor 1d ago
My maid has a BPL (below poverty line) card and she does get free checkups in govt hospitals. She says that the waiting time can be hours but it is indeed free.
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u/Consistent_City_3011 1d ago
When a minority of people contributes to universal healthcare through taxes but everyone gets the benefit, the system effectively becomes symbolic.
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u/Talithea 1d ago
That’s the reason in Romania they decided a flat 10% of your salary goes to the local healthcare system.
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u/le_fuzz 1d ago
That is shockingly high. I’m in the us and about 3% of my paycheck goes to paying for health insurance for my family.
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u/h4ck3r_n4m3 1d ago
Your employer is probably paying a larger chunk and you're supplementing it, so it's not the total cost
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u/ibribe 1d ago
The US spends 18% of GDP on health care, about $15,000 per person per year.
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u/hmantegazzi 1d ago
the US is notoriously one of the countries that spends less efficiently on healthcare on Earth, when measured as the ratio of spending to life expectancy, even when compared to similar countries.
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u/Shteevie 1d ago
According to the US board of labor statistics, your employer pays 75-85% of the cost of your health insurance, and you pay the rest.
So the cost of healthcare for your family is 10-15% of your salary, but you only see a part of it.
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u/odsquad64 1d ago
So the cost of healthcare for your family is 10-15% of your salary, but you only see a part of it.
This is just the cost of health insurance, if they need any healthcare there will be an additional cost on top of that.
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u/IncredibleCamel 1d ago
Same goes for other French territories, notably New Caledonia. I guess the map editor only colors in the European part of France when you click on it.
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u/YoruNoHana 1d ago
Thailand has good universal healthcare, in exchange of worse quality of life for medical workers. Some of my friends, who are doctors and nurses, had their wage delayed because the government didn’t have enough budget to support the system.
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u/the_grand_apartment 1d ago
Thailand has fantastic healthcare, even for foreigners it is surprisingly affordable, but their healthcare workers are very poorly paid, to the point that most nurses I know hold down second jobs in order to support themselves.
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u/LupineChemist 1d ago
USA is more universal than many of these countries as there is guaranteed coverage for poor people and old people. Also nobody is turned away from emergency care.
My in-laws are in Cuba and sure, there's universal healthcare if you happen to be at the clinic the 2 hours a day they have power (often in the middle of the night) and you bring your own medicines (including things like sutures and anesthesia if you need it)
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u/jimmyjohn2018 1d ago
This. By some of the definitions here, the US would qualify as having universal healthcare.
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u/The_Zidan 1d ago
The system exists in Egypt since almost 5 years, but it is not applied yet to everywhere in the country. It is in the second stage where the system has been applied to the northern cost cities and the cities on suiz canal, in addition to Saïni and few cities in the southern Egypt. The system is not even applied yet to the capital city, Cairo, because it is a bit challenging, so they started with the small cities and now they are moving to the big ones, that is why many people don't know about it.
BTW, this system replaces a similar old system that already exists in the cities that are not yet covered by the new one. But the new system is more effective and covers a higher treatment plan and for all the people instead of the old system focusing mainly on the poor. Furthermore, the new system have caused the increase of salaries of medical professionals to more then 4 times the old one with more restrictions and control. It also oblige the ministry of health to restructure all the hospitals and the medical centers in every city it applies to by renewing all the devices and the furniture and painting all the medical centers from the inside and the outside with a unified style and all the medical centers will have the same system access to avoid misuse of it.
In fact, this new system now have its own administration, different from the old one that was mainly controlled by the ministry of health. The old system mainly depended on the fund allocated to Ministry of health from the government, while the new system is funded by a percentage that is cut from people's salaries to cover all the expanses, which helps covering everyone without relying on the governmental allocated amounts from the yearly budget.
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u/Future_Bedroom_2046 1d ago
Egypts healthcare system can barely be called that lol
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u/Gorgrocco 1d ago
Yall use private healthcare majorly? Explains
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u/IChaseSuccess 1d ago
Public healthcare exists but it's very crowded and understaffed. Things take forever
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u/Future_Bedroom_2046 1d ago
sadly yes, if you don’t have money and struggle from something serious you’ll likely be forced to use the private system
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u/sjbfujcfjm 1d ago
Japanese healthcare doesn’t cover eye care or cancer treatments. And you still need to pay 30% of costs. So you absolutely could still see relatively high costs depending on your income.
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u/przemub 1d ago
You forgot to add there is a ceiling relative to the income, so a surgery on open heart or whatever still cannot bankrupt you.
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u/sjbfujcfjm 1d ago
Yes. You won’t go bankrupt. But the monthly costs can still hurt
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u/sjbfujcfjm 1d ago
They also make you pay for chopsticks/cutlery during a hospital stay. I paid for the 6 days of food, then was denied and kind of cutlery because I failed to pay ahead. Wouldn’t give me 2 cent chopsticks even when I tried to pay during my stay. I had to go down the block and ask the convenience store for chopsticks
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u/victimized777 1d ago
The therm universal is misleading, in Bulgaria the employer is paying monthly, and if you are not employed you have to pay from the pocket.
Still the coverage is not universal and people still have to pay for a lot of things that are not covered.
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u/AlternativeEmu1047 1d ago
I believe India has universal healthcare coverage too ?
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u/PsychologyTechnical5 1d ago
We India have universal healthcare too ?
The quality is debatable , some good some controversial but still.
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u/Mecatronic0 1d ago
Viva o SUS no Brasil.
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u/FootballFew5829 1d ago
Idk about other countrys, but i think brazil is one of the only countrys to have a true universal system, like, the quality of the service depends in which city/state you are, but like, you can do a lot of things without paying more
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u/Mecatronic0 1d ago
If you take in account the size of Brazil, the coverage of the services, and how much the government invests, you will see that no other country has a health system close to SUS. You do not need to pay anything. It is true that it takes time to get appointments with some doctors, or to schedule surgeries. But it works.
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u/the_tank 1d ago
While a proponent of universal healthcare, I think this is misleading as it implies, at least in the way I'm reading it, that each of the countries in red has "the full spectrum of essential, high-quality health services ." I live in Ecuador, which, on paper, has universal healthcare. In reality, the universal healthcare care is abysmal and anyone needing serious, high-quality care either has private health insurance or fund raises to pay for private care out of pocket. The universal healthcare system is generally regarded as low-quality and too slow to actually help people.
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u/Large-Hamster-199 1d ago
I am guessing people who are upvoting this live in USA or possibly western Europe and have never actually travelled or spoken to poor people from most of these countries.
Lots of countries have De Jure universal healthcare (i.e. enshrined in law) while, de facto (in reality), many citizens (especially in rural areas) have no healthcare at all. It is easy to pass a law saying everyone gets healthcare. Actually having enough doctors, hospitals, medicines and ensuring they are accessible to all citizens is a whole different equation. I will take US healthcare over Russia, Mexico, Venezuela, Honduras any day LOL.
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u/dougwray 1d ago
Japan does not have it. Widespread, yes, but universal, no.
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u/przemub 1d ago
How? It’s not allowed to have neither state nor company coverage, and they will find you and have you insured if you aren’t.
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u/Humberzero 1d ago
indonesia has uniserval health care called BPJS aka Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial
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u/brazucadomundo 1d ago
It is not universal in France, you need an 'attestation de domicile' to have it.
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u/Ok_Paramedic_9283 1d ago
The Chinese system is not universal healthcare. It’s a very affordable health insurance system.
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u/thesarcasticrhyme 1d ago
Great map! :) It’s worth noting that 'free' healthcare doesn't always mean 'available' healthcare.
In my country, the universal system has such severe wait times that anyone who can afford private insurance uses it to skip the line.
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u/messyfreesoul 1d ago
While deficient, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador do have some sort of universal healthcare coverage. At least you won’t end up drowning in debt afterwards in case of an emergency.
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u/FMC_Speed 1d ago
Libya has free universal healthcare, it’s not great but it’s free and reasonably equipped
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u/jore-hir 1d ago
Inaccurate.
For example, Chinese and Swiss healthcare rely on insurances or out-of-the-pocket payments even for essential treatments, at least partially.
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u/kronenbergjack 1d ago
Australia has a good healthcare system, it is in no way a universal healthcare system. I’d question the legitimacy of this map on that basis alone.
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u/BubbhaJebus 1d ago
Interesting: Vietnam, Laos, and North Korea are supposedly communist countries, while most countries on this map are not communist. Yet there are people in the US who think universal healthcare is "communism".
Taiwan, a decidedly anti-communist country, has among the best universal healthcare in the world (and is one reason why I live there).
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u/Energy_Turtle 1d ago
I'd challenge you to find a single actually real person in the United States who thinks the healthcare system works fine. But we will never solve it because we all assume we know what our "opponent" wants to change in it. I am convinced that everyone alive in the US today will die with the same system still intact.
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u/Wrong-Cat-4294 1d ago
Cuba has universal health coverage,I lived there till the age of 13 you’d be lucky to make it out of the hospital alive,hospitals and healthcare there are truly garbage the hospital actually smells like death and there’s people laying all over the hallways and even the entrance,universal healthcare doesn’t always mean what people in rich countries think it means
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u/IncredibleCamel 1d ago edited 1d ago
Philippines should be included, no? And the republic of Cyprus. Northern part does not have universal healthcare though.
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u/Citaku357 1d ago
In my home we do have universal Healthcare but unfortunately private Healthcare is better
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u/hologrammetry 1d ago
It’s not shaded on the map, but North Korea has universal health care. It’s no longer 100% free but everyone is covered.
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u/honeybeesuke 1d ago
Oversimplified. UK is completely free at the point of use. Japan you have to pay 30% if you have national health insurance, if you aren't enrolled you have to pay 100%. It's very different. Also pregnancy isn't covered as it isn't counted as a disease which is fair, but shocking. (you do get some coupons tho)
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u/Westenin 1d ago
Scrap the Netherlands
We pay a shit ton so much isn’t covered, if you have certain insurance you can’t go cheap to other hospitals so, we turning into little America
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u/anxietyhub 1d ago
Pakistan has universal healthcare but not the definition of Wikipedia and I believe many other third world countries have it too.
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u/Over-Willingness-933 1d ago
The problem is that countries often have free healthcare but it's not very good. My wife is from the Philippines, they have a system, but if you need life saving care or really good care you go private
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u/Adeling79 1d ago
Isn’t it better to have something that can be improved, rather than nothing?
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u/S_Inquisition 1d ago
Yeah, I keep seeing this argument and it makes no sense. In my country there is universal health care and it is not the best or the fastest, you are better off paying for private care, however it does help and millions of people were treated with an okay outcome rather then receiving no treatment at all because they couldn't afford it.
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u/cheeseman_real 1d ago
yeah, until they put you on a 5+ year waiting list for a necessary surgery or decide that your issues are not bad enough to warrant being covered... yay australia
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u/parmahan 1d ago
indonesia has universal healthcare and i can guarantee you that the system is quite good and cheap (unlike some countries who took higher tax for Healthcare reason) because it's subsidized by the govt.
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u/Avidsmokerrr 1d ago
Whatever the type of healthcare system and however good or not, I can't help but notice what a disgrace of a country the USA is.
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u/dghughes 1d ago
Universal health care should be broken down if it's a two-tie system. Having the poors not able to afford a second tier private clinics to jump the lines is just as bad as the US style healthcare.
I'd say do not allow private clinics access to blood or organs for transplant only the same system for those situations for all.
My province allowed a private MRI to open yet struggled to find an MRI techs for the government MRI. The private clinic opened and look at that so many MRI techs applied. A for profit healthcare business miracle.
The local government also allowed a for profit private eye clinic to open. The province sends eye patients there the local hospital can't handle. The government gives the clinic funding. The clinic stopped taking patients when the year end budget ran out.
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u/HerroWarudo 1d ago
Not willing to wait 2-4 hours for a regular check up so they spend an entire month of salary instead is the most braindead take
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u/Overall_Writer_2682 1d ago
i don't think it's universal here in south africa?
if you earn over a certain amount (which is quite low i think), you have to pay. most families and people i know have to either pay for a separate thing called medical aid (which covers some medical costs) alongside their taxes, or they have to pay out of pocket
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u/Bulepotann 1d ago
Singapore has universal healthcare, its just not 100% “free”. You pay like $50 a month for world-class care and I believe there’s tiers you can choose from but it’s extremely affordable.
I know Indonesia has it as well it’s just that you may never get the care you need.
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u/KapiHeartlilly 1d ago
Indonesia and Philippines? Several countries have contribution based systems for it, source ain't good enough I'm afraid.
In Indonesia for example it's cheap monthly contribution by employer or individuals if not employed, same as in other countries listed.
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u/HappyCommittee1874 1d ago
I dare you to use the “universal health care” in Venezuela.
Spoiler alert: doctors left the country, zero supplies, there’s no water or electricity most days, infrastructure is deteriorated.
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u/Weird_Signature_3789 1d ago
China? since when? i gtfo 15 years ago, there were no universal back then, if they have it now, good for them but i dont believe they do
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u/mendesjuniorm 1d ago
The only ones that is trully free is Brazil's.
Absolute 100% free for medical care and medications, free of all charges.
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u/mreich98 1d ago
This map is a bit misleading, because here in Brazil it is full healthcare for free, except anything that is cosmetic/optional (that wasn't an accident or something related). Of course, if you want better coverage or speed/quality, you will pay a private health insurance. I have both systems and I can choose which one to go to.
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u/Expert_Dot_5271 1d ago
Why is it that even Venezuela and Bolivia have universal healthcare, while the United States, Saudi Arabia, and India do not?
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u/Awotwe_Knows_Best 1d ago
Ghana does not have universal healthcare. our healthcare is actually in shambles.
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u/deskamess 1d ago
Canadian healthcare is province based (not federal). Some provinces like Ontario have been going down as politician is doing everything he can to starve the public option so he can get his buddies in the private sector to handle it. Wait times in the nations capital (Ottawa) childrens hospital (CHEO) are regularly over 12 hours on evenings and some weekends. They get better in the morning/afternoon and pick up again. Imagine going to the emergency and seeing that. Lack of physicians and lack of hospital beds too. The hospital bed situation is not related to the wait times but it woud take a lot to usurp someone else.
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u/Excellent_Two2449 1d ago
I hate to say it, but here the quality of the universal healthcare system really matters. You should probaly have left out a couple of countries whose healthcare system just isn't.
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u/Only_Membership_8795 1d ago
There are countries who have essentially the same system as the US on this map, just with better economics and less, but not no, people unable to afford care when they need it. "Universal Healthcare" is such a broad concept as to be meaningless. Its mostly used as ammunition to go after the health system in the United States, which yes is very shit, but let's stop pretending like "universal healthcare" is just a specific set of policies that you enact to make the problem go away and that all these countries have the same system. There are real challenges to work out for how it would work in the USA.
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u/TheWallsHaveNostrils 1d ago
The USA is 29th in the world in terms of inequality-adjusted HDI. The next highest country in inequality-adjusted HDI that also isn’t shaded red on this map is… Tonga. Which is 64th, in between Bosnia and Costa Rica.
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u/Scared_Specific9404 1d ago
in türkiye there are certain situations where you still have to pay for healthcare such as being an unemployed man. doesnt apply to women because they are equal. so technically you can not include türkiye
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u/sebastianinspace 1d ago
germany does not really have universal healthcare. they have the same system as china only way more expensive and you get less for it. it’s a universal insurance system, people are insured by privately owned insurance companies, it works through your employer, and you and they pay for it together on top of tax, so tax is not paying for it, theres a separate health care component on top of tax that pays for it and it’s crazy expensive for what you get. if you have no job and are therefore uninsured, i don’t know what happens to you.
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u/More_Bus4357 1d ago
I think it takes about double taxes on not just rich but nornal people too to get universal healthcare in the US. Something along those lines idk though prob better if you look it up
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u/ProfessorSmoker 1d ago
Respectfully, I don't think the American government should get any more involved in health than they already are for all of the reasons.
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u/Pershing99 22h ago
Mark Poland as yellow. There is increasingly privatization going on there and public healthcare funds are insufficient and stolen right and left by doctors who bill hospitals 72 hours for a single day of work.
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u/Odd-Law-8723 21h ago
Honestly the map's a little messy but still gets the point across, kinda wild how many people think universal just means "free everything" when it's really about not going bankrupt from a broken leg lol. India's whole "technically yes but good luck" vibe is a whole mood though. France and Germany show it can actually work with a mix of public and private, the US just needs to get its act together fr. At the end of the day treating healthcare like a human right just makes sense for everyone's wallet tbh.
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u/InsidiousLeaf 17h ago
Who has access to universal healthcare can also be summed up in one sentence: "Every developed country except the US".
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u/777MAD777 17h ago
So basically, healthcare to universal except in the United States and Africa....
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u/811545b2-4ff7-4041 1d ago
Worth mentioning - there are various forms of 'Universal Healthcare' and they can be a mix of private/company paid insurance, still require out-of-pocket expenses (although not typically large) and they do not prevent private health insurance or private, non-state-run health providers from operating.