We're ranked approximately 37th among industrialized nations for the quality of our health care according to the WHO and other international organizations.

If you don't like those kinds of numbers because of the source I recently found another interesting one. IMO one good metric is life expectancy - and we're approximately 55th (Japan is #1) in life expectancy, TIED WITH CUBA according to our own CIA World Fact Book.

"Medical Tourism" was unheard of until a few years ago. Now 10 times as many people leave this country to find health care elsewhere than come here from abroad. That's even more shocking when you realize that our population is such a small fraction of the world population. If things were equalized, FAR more people would be coming here from the rest of the world's 6+ Billion people than our 300+ Million going elsewhere.

Again, we pay more and get less. Hardly the American Way.