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The healthcare system in the United States performs worse on health indicators compared to other major nations, despite the country's higher investment in healthcare. This is reflected in lower ratings for life expectancy and satisfaction among U.S. citizens. Especially, the lack of universal health coverage is different in the United States than in other countries. Some major differences between the United States and other major counties include quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives.

White Savior Industrial Complex (WSIC)

Less developed countries like India and Uganda do not always have the proper medical equipment to operate their practices. Due to this problem, the white savior industrial complex has surfaced in countries like India and Uganda. The white savior industrial complex refers to a dominant group's influence over another group. People with a white savior mentality may think they know what's best but in reality actually does more harm than good. Practices of white saviorism to White Westerners traveling and settling in different places around the world. A personal anecdote recalls how a white American physician influenced and made Ugandan medical staff doubt themselves on how to deliver a baby. Another personal anecdote notes a White physician male that used his privilege to influence medical staff in India to switch their social norms of gender. He treated a woman, who initially refused to be treated by a male foreigner. Instances like the two anecdotes are just a couple of examples of how widespread the WSIC is becoming.

The MI Complex is also present in India, where the Indian Medical Association lobbies for their interests at the local and state-level in politics.[38] Specifically, some doctors have accused the Indian Medical Associations of engaging in unethical practices and obstructing the advancement of healthcare systems within the medical profession. The association has responded they are just overemphasizing rare occasions of unethical practices. Yet, some doctors have privately admitted to immoral actions and have said that these practices are not limited to a few individual patients. Ethics is a hot topic of discussion not only within but also outside of the profession. These unethical practices could possibly be due to the large divide between healthcare systems in its different areas: tall, high-tech hospitals to dilapidated, dirty hospitals. So, there is a dilemma. Implementing stricter guidelines in the offices may be the solution to decreasing unethical practices, but it would increase the cost of healthcare for patients.