Er. US healthcare costs have been outpacing all other nations since 1980. The US has very poor healthcare results across the board, exept in one medium-size il

Er. US healthcare costs have been outpacing all other nations since 1980. The US has very poor healthcare results across the board, exept in one medium-size illness, cancer. Where the US does slightly better, untill you factor in that the short US lifespan, and how much younger US cancer patients are on average. And it would be very peculiar indeed if the country with the best hspitals, doctors and tech should also be the one with the shortest lifespan, years in good health, infoant mortality, amendable mortality, amternal mortality, etc, etc, etc. The bottom line is the US system costs them most and has very bad results. US healthcare and pharma industries are not all that innovative, have a look at number of patents brought to market. he US also scores very low on number of nobel prizes per head. Which brings US to Universiteis. US and UK univeristies like Cambridge, Harward, UMIST, Iperial, etc are undoubtedly good...but only looks dominant when you do the by-paper measuring which only counts papers published in english. Count non-english papers and the field widens. Count Nobels, and the US brings up the rear.