> Medical treatments and equipments in the US are the best in the world (discounting super small countries).
Not really. They're fine. In line with OECD. And further, America has a number of blemishes such as among the highest maternal mortality and infant rate in the entire OECD. [1]
...the U.S. ranks 33 out of 36 Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations. In 2018, while infant mortality reached an all-time low in the U.S., at 5.9 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, still more than 21,000 infants died. Compared to countries with a similar GDP, the U.S. infant mortality rate is much higher. France and the U.K., for example, have 3.8 deaths per 1,000 live births.
The only area the US really excels is in cancer 5-year survival rates - not because the mortality rate is lower, however, it's about the same as everywhere else. The US just biases towards earlier screenings that do not extend life or reduce mortality.
> Americans have the highest life expectancy in the world (discounting homicides and transit deaths).
Are you sure about that? It doesn't look like that on this chart. [2] Not to mention the US spends dramatically more to achieve that much lower life expectancy than anyone else does.
> Americans can get treatments fast while people in Canada or the UK have to wait for months because the government is rationing treatments.
This is a straight-up lie peddled by the US medical insurance industry. Here's an admission and an apology by a Cigna executive tasked with doing so. [3]
"Our industry PR and lobbying group, AHIP, supplied my colleagues and me with cherry-picked data and anecdotes to make people think Canadians wait endlessly for their care. It's a lie. And I'll always regret the disservice I did to folks on both sides of the border."
They pulled the same thing when Canada instituted single-payer healthcare in 1962. [4]
> American companies carry the world on medical innovation.
Not really. There are as many European as there are American medical companies in the top R&D spenders worldwide. That's before we factor in government expenditures worldwide.
> And, finally, Americans just earn more than people in other countries. GDP per capita is 60k in the US, 40k in other developed countries.
Now imagine what they could do with an extra $5K per person per year - the difference between what the US and Canadian medical systems cost per capita.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2021/08/01/us-mater...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
[3] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/27/884307565/after-pushing-lies-...
[4] https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-birth-of-med...