The top ten countries listed on the index are: Norway, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Switzerland and Japan.
Norway is best place to live, China moves up: UN - Yahoo! News
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Funny that USA rarely ranks well in this study.
What do they compare?
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Hmmm, Scandanavian countries always seem to do well in these sorts of polls..
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why australia??
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US is getting increasingly difficult to live in and earn an honest income and not get financially torn apart when someone in the family gets sick (ex. cancer, heart disease, diabetes, any surgically managed disease, anything requiring frequent hospitalizations or constant doctor visits).
Seriously. I am not working right now, so I'm on a low-income student geared insurance plan, and its ridiculous. I had 2 blood tests done to evaluate for an endocrine disorder, and I'm having to pay 300 dollars because some genius in the billing dept coded the lab tests wrong. And now all companies are sending me bills. When I try to fix this situation, billing dept is like "yeah...we'll get to fixing it..." I'm pretty sure, somehow I'm going to have to pay. They'll figure out some way to make me pay.
My father has heart disease and diabetes - pretty common - and he pays, despite insurance, like 600 per month on medications. Mom has osteoperosis and is aggravated about spending I forget how much each month for 4 pills.
What's left after they're done paying for meds, and paying for the household needs and children's education needs?
Like almost nothing. They work like dogs, and the whole system is convoluted and difficult - overly beuracratic, and at the end of the day, just inefficient.
And overall, I think Americans are annoyed with how their tax money is being spent these days.
You just have more rights and more ammenities in other european countries. At least you don't have to fight like a bug to get your healthcare.
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Switzerland will always be my top country :)
Like almost nothing. They work like dogs, and the whole system is convoluted and difficult - overly beuracratic, and at the end of the day, just inefficient.
Now now, don't let the conservatives hear about it. The system works fine, insurance companies are all benevolent and the best way to not run into health expenses is to not get sick.
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Best to live in your home country… :k:
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How is UAE, Qatar or Kuwait not on this list? I am assuming these kind of surveys take into account the citizens of the countries, and not visitors or expatriates. As far as their citizens are concerned, everything is free such as medical and education. On top of that there is a reverse tax system and amenities like free electricity, pressure free jobs and a system which gives their citizens the upper hand in everything. What is there to complain about?
Edit: Ok I see they are in the 30's. Pretty good for countries that came to be just 40-50 years ago and had to work their way up.
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Canada!
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Well the top country for every individual may differ :@:
These surveys dont take into account everything
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Canada has one of the best social programmes inspite of declining services.
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Goooo Amereeeka, even thou you're no where close to the list:@:
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a prime example is in the news these days, bombing the moon with $79 million of taxpayers hard earned money, is this really the time for these shenanigans?!
NASA: Lunar crashes won?t hurt the moon - LiveScience- msnbc.com
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GO aussieeessssss!!! wooohoooo :)
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India and Pakistan :)
Australia really?? From all the news on racist attacks that is coming out of Australia, the place doesn’t seem like such a nice place for desis
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Norway rocks 
India and Pakistan :)
well said dude!