US Health care is not the best..

The United States does not
have the "best" health care system
in the world.


Not even close.

"Americans pay more for health care
than any other country in the world
and yet the health care Americans
receive is ranked by the World Health
Organization (WHO)  as 37th in overall
performance and 72nd in overall level of
health of the 191 nations
included in the 2000 study...

...a report by the Commonwealth Fund
ranked the U.S. last in the quality of health
care among the 19 countries compared.
The United States has the highest infant
mortality rate of all develped countries.

...The United States is the only wealthy,
industrialized, developed country in the
world that does not offer health care
to all of its citizens.

...the facts show that that
the United States
has one of the worst
health care systems of

all the developed countries
in the world...

The United States ranks only
27th in life expectancy of 189
countries. Of the 30 OECD
(Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Develop-
ment) nations, the United
States ranks only 22nd in life
expectancy.

The United States ranks 25th in infant
mortality rates among the 30 OECD
nations.

The United States does not have
the best health care system in the world.
Far from it.

The World Health Organization's ranking
of the world's health systems.

Source: WHO World Health Report -
The World Health Organization's ranking
1 France

2 Italy

3 San Marino

4 Andorra

5 Malta

6 Singapore

7 Spain

8 Oman

9 Austria

10 Japan

11 Norway

12 Portugal

13 Monaco

14 Greece

15 Iceland

16 Luxembourg

17 Netherlands

18 United Kingdom

19 Ireland

20 Switzerland

21 Belgium

22 Colombia

23 Sweden

24 Cyprus

25 Germany

26 Saudi Arabia

27 United Arab Emirates

28 Israel

29 Morocco

30 Canada

31 Finland

32 Australia

33 Chile

34 Denmark

35 Dominica

36 Costa Rica

37 United States of America