USAmerican healthcare -some sobering realities

Further to my rant-to-get-it-off-my-chest yesterday, I came across this which seems to bear out the sense of outrageous injustice in the claims of some on the USAmerican right. Go here for the whole thing: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care - The Commonwealth Fund And her's the shocking headline news: "Compared with five other nations—Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom—the U.S. health care system ranks last or next-to-last on five dimensions of a high performance health system: quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives. The U.S. is the only country in the study without universal health insurance coverage, partly accounting for its poor performance on access, equity, and health outcomes. The inclusion of physician survey data also shows the U.S. lagging in adoption of information technology and use of nurses to improve care coordination for the chronically ill."
Now some of that might actually be down to the economies of scale factor ...