Irrelevant.A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Every other major industrialized country has three distinctions.
1) Health care that cost less than HALF per capita than America.
2) Better outcomes, lower infant mortality rates, and lower adult mortality rates.
3) There is one factor common to the top 15 industrialized countries. They all have strong state funding of single-payer universal health care, instead of insurance based health care tied to employment. The bottom four countries Germany, USA, Portugal and Switzerland all depend more heavily on profit-based, private health insurance provided primarily through the employer/employee relationship.
American life expectancy at birth ranks 30th in the world. We remain 30th for the rest of our lives -- until we reach 65. Then, our rank rises until we reach 14th at 80. We can thank the remarkable access to health care provided by Medicare.
All those countries also share something else: Exploding health care costs that are bankrupting the state. I dont think we really want to emulate that.
America is the land of exploding health care costs that are bankrupting the state.