[cosmotic]

The unique thing about the US healthcare system is that care is directly proportional to how much money you can spend on it. So as a top spender, yes the care is great. Though realistically we should look at the system as a whole for all people it "covers". Looking at infant mortality rate, life expectancy, etc, for the average person, the picture is bleak; the US is shockingly bad.

[taylodl]

Exactly. The data tells the story, and the results data of healthcare in America is abysmal. I used to workout at a gym that was near a major hospital. I will never forget a conversation I overheard between two doctors in the steam room many, many years ago where they were talking about this issue and the one doctor quipped to the other "the United States has the best healthcare nobody can afford."