Originally Posted by
Wikiy
I'm willing to reject ratings that rank the US' health care system as #2 simply because that means those ratings only asses health care quality, instead of availability as well. I honestly don't care how good the health care is for the 80%, as long as the non-privileged don't get it, ranking a country as second in the world is stupid.
Also, we could look at it this way: 80% of Americans have access to the 2nd best healthcare quality in the world. 20% have access to healthcare equivalent to that of Somalia, meaning none. 100% of the French, though, have access to a healthcare that is among the best, but still worse than the American one, i.e., the 2nd best in the world. I'd gladly take the French choice any day.