(V): More nonsense. WHO rankings are ten years old. They are no longer produced. And what is their ranking criterion? Sorry, people don't fly from the US to France to get major medical help. But they come from all over the world to get help from the top hospitals here. Our technology surpasses any other country. We're simply the best in the quality of health care.

Here's a fact for you: Americans have a higher survival rate than any other country on earth for 13 of 16 of the most common cancers. Perhaps that is why Belinda Stronach, former liberal member of the Canadian Parliament and Cabinet member (one of the health care systems touted as “superior” to the US) abandoned the Canadian Health Care system to undergo her cancer treatment in California.

The WHO ranking doesn't measure quality of care but the overall health of the citizens. Then based on the health of it's citizens, they rank the countries. They measure "life expectancy" but don't take into account such factors as poverty, homicide rate, or use of tobacco.

In the US, you don't have to wait months for emergency MRIs. You do in Canada. And even in your country, you can't get timely care. You have to wait. That's the general rule in France too. But not in the US. I can get in same day if I don't want to see my regular doctor. If I want to see only him, I may have to wait a few days or so.

The WHO report doesn't measure the quality of health care delivery. It looks at other factors. The ranking system of the WHO is strongly biased towards a uniformly government directed health care system. In that case, I'm glad the US doesn't rank well.

One only need to look at the VA health care system in the US to see just how badly government run health care systems can get. The VA has outdated equipment, poorly trained doctors, and is in need of a complete overhaul. And in the VA, you can't sue your doc if he messes up. Recently, one guy lose both his legs when the doc messed up. The soldier who lost his legs cannot sue for damages. Because? The government set that rule.

Socialized medicine is a failure. It produces unskilled doctors and little incentive to improve. The current US system may need some tweaks, but Obama will ruin it if he continues on this destructive path.