Which Country Has The Best Healthcare? | Dr. Zeke Emanuel
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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00:00 Intro
01:53 Building Obamacare / Expensive Premiums
11:20 Vertical Consolidation of Pharma
18:15 AI Tools
29:42 Private Equity In Healthcare
35:00 Biohacking
39:26 Supplement Regulation / Dangerous Testing
46:34 Corruption Of Young Doctors / Copays
52:45 MAHA / Subsidies
56:13 Best Healthcare In The World
58:37 Worst Habits / Fiber
1:02:28 Ice Cream
1:08:48 Blue Zones / Raw Milk / RFK Jr.
1:13:05 GLP-1's
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| 0:00.0 | I'm curious, if you had to be born today, what nation would you be born in because of their |
| 0:08.0 | health care system? |
| 0:09.0 | I wouldn't want to be born in a country only because of their health care system. |
| 0:12.0 | There's a whole community. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, look, first of all, let's be, I do have a book called which country is the world's best health care. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, there you go. |
| 0:20.0 | I only went to 11 countries. I didn't go to which country is the world's best health care. Oh, there you go. I only went to 11 countries. |
| 0:21.7 | I didn't go to every country in the world. |
| 0:25.0 | So the big winners were that. |
| 0:26.5 | Welcome to the checkup podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | Today's guest is Dr. Zeke Emanuel, an oncologist who, amongst many other things, |
| 0:33.5 | helped design the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare. Currently America's entire healthcare system. |
| 0:40.3 | So you can blame him the next time you accidentally book a doctor, |
| 0:43.2 | that's out of network. |
| 0:44.6 | All kidding aside, Dr. Emanuel has been extremely influential |
| 0:48.0 | in establishing the structure of the average Americans' health care, |
| 0:51.2 | both the good and the bad. |
| 0:52.9 | Providing coverage for Americans |
| 0:54.4 | with pre-existing conditions? That's Zieg. Having to enroll in a new policy every year for the |
| 0:59.2 | rest of your life? Let's also kind of Zique too. But he's not just a physician and bioethicist. |
| 1:04.6 | He's also the author of a new book called Eat Your Ice Cream, Six Simple Rules for a Long |
| 1:09.9 | and a Healthy Life. It's full of great tips to improve your health, including the dietary benefits of eating ice cream. |
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