Originally Posted by SteveZ

In all circumstances, the countries mentioned are highly restrictive in their immigration policies, rarely take political asylees (except Sweden) and are geographically small (the largest, Sweden, is equal to California). The health condition of foreign visitors, students, temporary employees, asylees and many others (including border-jumpers) is not checked until they apply (if ever) for green-card "permanent resident" status. Their "pre-existing conditions" impact all health statistics.

We also have the worst diet and sedentary lifestyle, and high intentional infant mortality. You can't legislate what folk eat or make them exercise

the other 13 "developed countries" have high tariffs and other trade-protective mechanism to protect their economies and have positive balance-of-payments ratios. That affects all economic ratios, includeing health care to everything else.

WHO only compared medical-to-medical costs and did not factor other economic conditions. We can solve half the uninsured problem by resolving the illegal immigration factor.

The largest uninsured group in emergency rooms are illegal aliens. The citizenry issue is one thing - the "everybody here, legal or not" is another.

The USA is also has the greatest ethnic "melting pot.' The disability factor includes wounded veterans and those with genetic conditions. The former have protected just about everyone else, and the latter is due to our propensity to accept more of the world's desperate.

"Fairness in funding" is highly subjective.

Again, let's compare sizes. Florida residents may be very content with their coverage, while residents of Nevada may not. That would be the equivalent of Germans and Greeks in a European study. We seem to keep forgetting the USA is geographically as large as all of Europe (excluding Russia).
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When government keeps imposing higher overhead upon US employers, making them less competitive than the foreign goods/services providers who receive "most favored nation" trading status despite having nationalized, socialist-run industries, something has to give to keep the business doors open so they can keep employees. In this, we are our worst enemy.