Reply #8: Hmm. Mostly agree, however... [View All]

...not sure about the "large group clustered at the top" part. Certainly, the US can offer very high quality healthcare to those that can afford it, but with so many Americans enrolled in HMO plans (especially out West), or having mediocre insurance (getting worse as employers cut back), or being completely uninsured (about 43 million), I would suggest that the majority rarely enjoy "the best healthcare system in the world" as you put it. After all, how good can a system be when almost 600,000 people a year die from diseases they didn't have before entering hospital, or from being given the RIGHT DRUG in the RIGHT DOSAGE, or because some quack doctor pulled out the wrong body part?