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Not really, the US health system is so broken is just costs more. The system of who pays what is very different, but at the end of the day the cost of healthcare is much higher in US than any other country.



Yup, I feel that until someone has seen and understood the first graphic in this article, they really don't grok the situation:

https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low


I'm curious, did you see that little asterisk at the end of my comment?




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