> You can't compare the US standard of care with the rest of the world's standard of care. This is a meme I hear a lot from Americans but having lived in Ameri

> You can't compare the US standard of care with the rest of the world's standard of care. This is a meme I hear a lot from Americans but having lived in America and elsewhere, I don't believe it at all. Do you have any data supporting it? The best I could find is life expectancy (US is #31 worldwide) and maternal mortality rate (US is #46 worldwide). The US doesn't seem to excel here by any means. Can you point to data where the US does excel? Is there evidence that people entering an American hospital exit with better outcomes than people entering say a Swiss hospital or French hospital? And anecdotally, my experiences with healthcare in the US were strictly negative. Things like $600 for some regular over the counter medication from a hospital (and that's just the co-pay at an in-network hospital). Living in Australia and Switzerland, my experiences were much, much better.