Hi, I believe that's wrong. I don't know why there is conflict in the technical literature, but I believe the consensus is that US healthcare outcomes lag behin

Hi, I believe that's wrong. I don't know why there is conflict in the technical literature, but I believe the consensus is that US healthcare outcomes lag behind most industrialized nations, including the UK. See e.g. http://politix.topix.com/homepage/7019-us-is-27th-in-the-world-on-healthcare http://politix.topix.com/homepage/7019-us-is-27th-in-the-wor... and the paper from which the figure is taken http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1710486 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1710486 Those data show that the USA ranks far below the UK on Years of Life Lost due to several cancers. I don't see how that's consistent with your claim. [Edit: actually, YLL is an incidence statistic, whereas parent's claim is that survival statistics are higher in the US, which the sources I've found agree with.] The Telegraph is a right-leaning paper and is well known to be anti-NHS. Please; being economically laissez-faire as people are on HN are is not incompatible with supporting state provision of healthcare, along with the other things a state provides. It's sad to see libertarians / laissez-faire economics people bashing the NHS by quoting stories cherry-picked by right wing media sources. It's just not something we need disagree about.