Reply #40: Actually, that's not quite true... [View All]

[MellowDem]

11 of the thirty EU countries have health care systems ranking below the US according to the last WHO report. Though it would probably more fair to say that 384.8 million people lived in countries ranked higher than the US and 102 million did not, or 80% to 20%. Of course, the EU isn't all of Europe, and generally cherry picks the countries on the best upswing economically. However, if you also look at EU potential member countries, then it would be 385.1 million to 180.2 million, or about 66% to 33%. And if you were to look at Europe as a whole, it would be aboute 400 million to 400 million, or 50/50. And that depends on if you think the WHO of 2000 report is all that good of an indicator of health. The WHO has stopped ranking countries because it is too complicated a practice that basically is impossible to do.

I never posited that the US was better, and neither did the OP, but that seems to be the strawman people want to build. I do think there are a lot of misperceptions about Europe on here, as your post illustrates.