Most of your criticism is of a particular part of the American financial services sector, not of health care.
Finally, according to the WHO, the US ranks 37 in the world for system efficiency.
WHO rankings are predominantly a measurement of inequality of marginal costs of health care. The WHO's measurement is so flawed that one can make all sorts of pareto improvements (e.g., make 50% of the population live 10 years longer, while the other 50% lives only 1 year longer) and reduce one's rank.
My criticisms are about the health care system, emphasis on the "system" part. Having a large number of citizens without health care is a failure of the system.
The issue is a socio-political one. It's about the distribution of health care and who our culture deems worthy of receiving it.
"Most of your criticism is of a particular part of the American financial services sector, not of health care."
This seems to almost be a tangent. Please explain.
Finally, according to the WHO, the US ranks 37 in the world for system efficiency.
WHO rankings are predominantly a measurement of inequality of marginal costs of health care. The WHO's measurement is so flawed that one can make all sorts of pareto improvements (e.g., make 50% of the population live 10 years longer, while the other 50% lives only 1 year longer) and reduce one's rank.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636063