Here: http://hospitals.webometrics.info/top1000.asp
America has the top 25 hospitals in the world... now don't lose me here... it might be expensive to get yourself to one of them... and it might be expensive to have the procedure you need done... but it doesn't mean that those 25 hospitals don't do the best damn work in the world. Are you following along here? If you are fatally ill and you need treatment... and expense is no issue... where would you go? Would you go to the hospital ranked number 1 or the one ranked number 42 because France happens to top the list you provided?
The US has the top 118 of the top 200 hospitals in the world... As I said earlier... it's expensive, but it's the best.
Are you still following along?
Now, I'm not opposed to giving as many people access to this care as possible and I never said it wasn't a problem. I get the idea that you think that's where I'm coming from... and you are blanket attacking me because you think I'm somehow totally opposed to giving people access to this...
Lol you didn't read what that web-page was about did you? Did it take you long to find? Because that ranking page you linked too ranks hospital web pages, not their quality of service, efficiency, safety, or anything else to do with how good a hospital is. Thats what the WHO and commonwealth fund rankings look at. Remember how the US didn't come first in either of those? But don't let me get in the way of you being a patronizing ass.
If I was fatally ill, and expense was no issue, I'd build my own damn hospital. I'd be the only patient, and every doctor in the world would work there working on finding me and me alone a cure.
See, we're talking about the US healthcare system, not the top 25 hospitals. Even if those rankings you linked too were concerned with hospital quality, and not their webpage rankings it lists over 5000 hospitals as being in the US. Do you think having 25 good ones is a good ratio?
I'm not attacking you (well maybe a little, but only because you just copy-pasted a reply to one word of my comment without adressing the rest
), I'm pointing out that the USA doesn't have the best healthcare system in the world. Not that its expensive, thats a moot point, but that it just isn't the best. Top ten maybe, yeah, but not the best.