Something no one takes into account when saying other countries health care is superior to the US is research. How much do they invest in developing and bring new drugs to market?.. innovative equipment and procedures? Research? Some of those countries do almost none and depend upon the US for the bulk of their progress.
My son-in-laws brother lives in Germany. He had a hip replacement at about the same time my wife had one here in the states. I can tell you hat he though he had no worries about paying the bills, his care and his progress was nowhere close to what my wife's was.. I don't know that we have any hospitals left around here that had 6+ bed patient wards.
The US health care system is second to none.. The mistake we have made is letting the socialists get away with calling insurance "health care" which it isn't. It simply the tool for financing the payment of health care services. Calling insurance heath care si the equivalent of calling auto financing automotive manufacturing.
Take the claim that there are 44 million people without health care. That is not true. There are 44 million that do not have "health insurance" but all of them have access to health care as they can go to any emergency room and they must receive treatment. There are also programs to help indigent people. And, may of those people could pay for basic health care out of pocket or purchase insurance but refuse to do so. The new Truck, Boat, Trailer, etc. is more important to them than insurance.
