The American health system is not the envy of the world, it's the laughingstock of the world. It is viewed with amazement and horror by the world, as is the American political system in general.

Now...let me explain that. It is true that America has some very advanced medical technology, yes....and some very fine doctors. That's not what the world views in horror and amazement. What the world views in horror and amazement is the fact that ordinary Americans have to spend almost unbelievable amounts of money to get their health care and health insurance, and that the USA spends more per capita on health care than any other nation, but somehow ends up only having the 37th best health care among nations in the world, and is way behind countries like France, Austria, Italy, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. Canada is just slightly better than the USA, but with the huge difference that all Canadians are covered by a public single-payer health insurance system paid for by taxes (and costing quite a bit less per capita than in the USA).

That's what's astonishing about the USA, and it's shameful. The American public is being robbed blind by the private health insurance companies and the AMA, and Obama's much touted health care plan has done very little to improve that grotesque situation, because it's mostly just another huge cash giveaway to the private health insurance industry. That's why it was passed!!!!!!!! And that's what they don't tell you. Obama is about as "socialist" as Benito Mussolini, in my opinion. Mussolini shot socialists.