Singapore's healthcare system is sometimes held up as an example of excellence and as a possible model for what could come next in the United States.
When we published the results of an Upshot tournament on which country had the world's best health system, Singapore was eliminated in the first round, largely because most of the experts had a hard time believing much of what the nation seems to achieve. It does achieve a lot.
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