The United State's Healthcare system - Is it really so bad?
The United State's healthcare system has the highest survival rate in the world, for patients in hospitals, 45% higher than the UK. [1][2][3] It spends more money per citizen than any other country in the world, with x directly, and x indirectly; in comparison Norway, etc. It has approximately a 2 hour waiting period in emergency rooms, vs. 8.8 hours in Canada, 9 hours in the UK, and an OECD average of. Finally, the government provides healthcare to those 33% above the poverty, and for all emergency care, which means it won't leave people to die if they need emergency treatment, and up to x percent is provided by the government directly. Despite this, many believe that the U.S.'s healthcare system is terrible, and that we need to copy Norway and other such supposedly socialist countries, who in their minds have better healthcare. While the U.S.'s healthcare system is better, the U.S. has a higher rate of cancer and heart disease than many other countries, mostly stemming from obesity, fast food, sedentary exercise-free lifestyles, and drug use, such as cigarettes and illegal narcotics. With that in mind, where does the real problem lie, if not the healthcare system itself, which is by most margins the best in the world?


https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0006_health-care-oecd

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/04/20/524774195/what-country-spends-the-most-and-least-on-health-care-per-person

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851013001759

https://www.england.nhs.uk/five-year-forward-view/next-steps-on-the-nhs-five-year-forward-view/urgent-and-emergency-care/