Is there free medical care in the world? How many countries in the world do health care be free?

Wealthy countries in Europe and the United States are all countries with free medical care, and developed countries such as the United Kingdom and Sweden.

Switzerland, Denmark.

All of them are free medical care for all, and all expenses are covered by the state. The United States and other countries have a medical insurance system, but for the retired elderly and the poor, medical care is free.

According to the survey, only Cuba has free medical care for all in the true sense of the word, that is, patients do not have to pay any money to see a doctor.

Usually people refer to free medical care countries, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, South Africa and other countries, all citizens do not need to pay medical insurance premiums to get basic free**, but in fact, they still need to pay certain fees when seeing a doctor, such as medicine, ** fees, etc.

According to the 2010 China Health Statistical Yearbook, among the 193 countries in the world, there is not a single country with zero personal health expenditure, that is, there is no country where personal health expenditure does not cost money.

In countries where people usually think that medical care is free, such as the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, India, etc., the proportion of personal health expenditure to total health expenditure in 2007 was8%。China's share of individuals dropped from 60% in 2001 to 2011.

In fact, there are not many countries in the world that offer free medical care. Among the developed countries, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, and Canada all have free medical care for all.

In Russia, both nationals and foreigners are entitled to free medical care. In other developing countries, India, Cuba, Brazil and Chile have also introduced universal free health care. There are also African countries that claim free medical care, but due to economic underdevelopment, it can only be on paper.

As a welfare system, free medical care can reduce the heavy medical burden of the population, especially the disadvantaged, but on the other hand, the "free lunch" is not always delicious, and in some countries, free medical care also brings problems such as poor service quality, low efficiency, and backward medical equipment. However, this may be the price that must be paid for free.

The above content reference: People's Daily Online-Perspective on global free medical care: Is it fair to not spend a penny?

People's Daily Online - Which countries provide free medical care The reporter investigates the medical system of more than 70 countries around the world.

There are 190 countries in the world that provide free medical care.

Examples of countries with free medical care:

Cuba: All fees are free, including meals. Same as North Korea.

Canada: Outpatient medication is self-paying, and outpatient, examination, and hospitalization are free of charge.

Spain: Public health services are free of charge and require a very small cost of medicine.

UK: Appointments and ** are free at public hospitals, and prescription drugs are free for 85. The elderly, children, and low-income people are all free of charge.

Belarus: Medical care and medicines are basically free.

Russia: Free medical treatment, free of charge, free of charge for medicines, and free of charge during hospitalization.

Ukraine: It's basically the same as Russia.

Mexico: Poor people are covered by universal health insurance, and they need to pay a variety of health insurance premiums, but the whole family no longer pays anything for medical treatment, including food and ambulance during hospitalization.

India: Its ** fiscal revenue is pitiful, but its courage to implement free medical care is commendable. Objectively speaking, the conditions of its public hospitals are not good, and the quality of doctors is not high, because most of the good doctors have moved to private hospitals.

However, the most positive significance of this is that 300 million poor people will be allowed to at least dare to go to the hospital for medical treatment, and the expenses will be basically free of charge. <>

There are seven countries in the world that do not provide free medical care.

There are seven countries that do not provide free medical care: New Zealand, Ireland, Australia, Canada, South Africa, India, the United States, etc. There are about 230 countries and regions in the world, of which 193 provide free medical care.

Reasons why medical care is not free:

1. Most of the countries with free medical care are not not paying for it, but how to pay for it and who pays for it. The government can barely afford the medical expenses of the people.

2. Another part of the country, such as Germany, Japan, the United States, the national economy is strong, but the population is large, so these countries rely on the combination of commercial medical insurance and **, is to pay high medical premiums, whether it is paid by themselves or the company, but they have to pay money daily, especially in the United States, complete commercial medical insurance, with medical insurance to pay high premiums can be reported close to free.

3. The national finance is limited, if it simply relies on the first finance, then the free medical care in a large country with a large population can only do minor diseases without seeing major diseases, which is a very embarrassing situation. Our country has such a large population, the international environment is not good, the economy is not strong enough to the zenith, there are many places that need to be funded, education, military spending, scientific research spending, various other field expenditures, etc., any one of them is a big money-burner. <>