you’re admitting the best care is in the US and you say it’s your right to get the best care.
I'm not sure if he's saying that about the health care system. There could be many factors, a particular doctor (for example), a particular facility related to his particular condition, or perhaps a combination of things, like distance and time and other factors (like being on the same continent and close to his home country.
You would probably have to ask him for the analysis of what went into his decision... but for a "general ranking" of the world health care systems, you can see the following...
Just on the basis (alone) of the year 2000 rankings of health care systems in the world, he could have gone to these countries, too.... being better than Canada...
France, Italy, San Marino, Andorra, Malta, Singapore, Spain, Oman, Austria, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Monaco, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium, Colombia, Sweden, Cyprus, Germany, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, or Morocco ...
And if someone in the United States wants to go to a better health care system in the world, they can go to these countries, according to that ranking...
France, Italy, San Marino, Andorra, Malta, Singapore, Spain, Oman, Austria, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Monaco, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium, Colombia, Sweden, Cyprus, Germany, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Morocco, Canada, Finland, Australia, Chile, Denmark, Dominica, or Costa Rica ...
Ranking Health Care Systems in the World, from year 2000 rankings.
If you believe it, go to Dominica for your health care from now on.
Who decides these rankings? What are the criteria?
These rankings are highly dependent on who is writing the rules and selecting the criteria. For example, I could say the criteria is the biggest system, the best surgeons, the most MRI machines per capita, and I could go on and on and the USA would be number 1 or very high in all of them. If you make the criteria stuff like percent of people with health insurance, or ratio of health care dollars to defense dollars per capita, then the USA falls well down.
That list is wrong. I’ve been to the UK and had surgery. It’s not better than the states. A trip to the vet would be better than the treatment and care I received in the UK. I just had another surgery in the US about a month ago and the treatment was miles above the UK.
Joke list compiled by a bunch of jealous America haters to give other jealous America haters some “ammunition”. You can go to Cypress or Colombia. Good luck.