1. Those countries are all capitalist economies, some with more economic freedom than the US. They can't be used to defend socialism/communism 2. We're on HN s

1. Those countries are all capitalist economies, some with more economic freedom than the US. They can't be used to defend socialism/communism 2. We're on HN so we all now about scaling. There's a big difference between 5 million and 300+ million citizens. 3. The US subsidizes those countries in terms of defense and innovation in health care. Pharma makes their profits off us while they have price controls in those other countries. http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking