[LadyNavyVet]

We do outspend them massively, for the same reason that a Mercedes costs more than a Yugo. With medical care, as with everything else, you get what you pay for. The solution is to get the government further OUT of healthcare, not further in. Too much government increases the cost of everything. How much is a toilet seat on a military aircraft versus a toilet seat from Home Depot?

[amchugh]

I agree that government should have a much more limited role in healthcare, but my point was that our Government spending on health care is greater than their total public+private sector spending on health care. We can hardly tell them their socialist health care is the problem when our own system has even more government involvement. We need to focus on cleaning up our own backyard.

Also, statistically despite the queues and waiting for treatment, they are getting better results on infant mortality, and a host of other medical issues. This is not a condemnation of our own system, but it's certainly not going to further efforts here politically to decouple government from healthcare.