Artful Dodger: Nope. the WHO rankings I was using are 8 years old. And since it appears your costings of your current system have gotten worse. But that is beside the point.

40 million USA citizens in the most advanced (as you are saying as others would disagree) country in the world are without healthcare. 40 million And while you may talk about yourself... what about one of those 40 million who has to wait?

And btw... if you didn't know... Cancer is not the big killers in terms of USA people or as per globally recognised major health problems. Heart and obesity seem to the big western problems... well as per USA and UK they are.

And hasn't the VA health care always been a problem? And I have to ask why?? various sides have been in power and done (according to you) little to improve it. That seems to be a symptomatic failure through embarrassment then 'social medicine'.
And yes here, you can sue a doctor, we also have the GMC by which a doctor can be struck off, we also have as well as each NHS trust's internal complaints dept, a health service ombudsman.

And btw.. no-one here can be refused health care due to the whim of a health company saying "you are not covered", and our doctors here are good, A thing arises before wages as such and has done so for many many years....

It's a thing called the Hippocratic oath.... And please tell me.. why is it acceptable to have 40 million or so American people without the same health care you can expect as a paying person to a healthcare company? Is it acceptable that you have a two tier system in which the government already uses a form of socialisation via the medicare and mediaid systems and regulates. Why is it that some states have felt it necessary to set limits on docs charges for emergency care through A&E (ER to you)??