The US does really well at high end care. It does less well in terms of overall agregate health outcomes. As I recall last time I saw a really good analysis if this posted to HN, You have to take into account a few other risk factors (obesity etc) in addition (to how infant mortality it reported) to get the US health outcomes inline with other developed nation. Even then, the US ends up paying way more to achieve that level of care per capita.
>>You have to take into account a few other risk factors (obesity etc) i
I disagree, we have a free society, and one of my concerns about a government run health care system is that it would allow encroachments upon that freedom. I do not need or want a parent via the government. I neither need nor want the government passing laws to control what food I eat, how much food I eat, or what health choices I make
The questions comes down at that point to if you desire a collectivist authoritarian government, one that "the greater good" (which is subjectively defined) always over rules the individuals rights, or do you want individualism and individual rights to reign supreme over the collective
Oh Jesus fuck, what is it about (some) Americans that makes them so aggressively unable to see beyond their own blinkered horizons? Is it something in the water?
Approximately none of your screed had anything whatsofuckingever to do with reality.
Edit: Took me a bit but I tracked down the article that my recollections are based on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737795