The 16 countries with the world's best healthcare systems

[FarCenter]

The Legatum Institute, a London-based research institute released its 10th annual global Prosperity Index in November, a huge survey that ranks the most prosperous countries in the world.

The organisation compares 104 variables to come up with its list, splitting those variables into nine subindexes. One of the big components of the ranking is how healthy a country's people are.

Health is measured by three key components by the Legatum Institute: a country's basic mental and physical health, health infrastructure, and the availability of preventative care.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the countries that have the best scores in the Prosperity Index, and therefore rank as the world's healthiest, are generally big, developed economies with large amounts of resources.

http://www.businessinsider.com/healthiest-countries-in-the-world-2017-1

The US is not one of the 16.

[BlueCaliDem]

1. My fellow countrymen and women at No. 5. Not bad, despite *this* guy:

(We go nuts for "voetbal&quot

[hunter]

2. The wealthy of the U.S.A. frequently suffer bad medicine too.

The most expensive treatment probably isn't the best or most appropriate treatment.

Worse, many very wealthy people like to surround themselves with yes-men.

Having a yes-man as one's doctor is a bad idea.