Portugal has a national health care system, entitling every resident to free or very low-cost health care. “They take care of people. If you’re poor, you still get health care. And you don’t have to have a job to get health insurance,” said Kyriakos S. Markides, a professor of aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. “What happens in this country? A lot of people go without.”
