After all, people come from the all over the world for treatment at Sloan Kettering. This is one of those claims that has to be attacked. Day after day, I hear

After all, people come from the all over the world for treatment at Sloan Kettering. This is one of those claims that has to be attacked. Day after day, I hear people defend our horrible healthcare system by claiming that people on the "global rich list" still come "to the US" for healthcare. That was true in the 1980s. Not now. No one who knows anything thinks highly of our healthcare system in general. Even if you have insurance, the quality of care is inferior to what many countries have for free. What is true is that very wealthy people (for whom money is no issue) travel to specific doctors for treatment, especially when getting an experimental procedure. If that doctor's at Sloan Kettering, they go to New York. If she's in Paris, they go to France. If she's at Hopkins, they go to Baltimore. If that doctor's in London under NHS, they go to the UK. No one comes "to the US"; some people come to specific specialists. Anyway, if you're an average American-- little wealth, no connections, unable to afford treatments insurance won't cover-- you're probably not going to be able to get appointments with those specialists no matter what. The U.S. insurance-dominated healthcare system is a world-class embarrassment. It's the first sign that we're no longer a first world country.