&gt; I don&#x27;t really think there&#x27;s debate that the US gives the best medical care if money is no object. My understanding is that, with very few exceptions, the wealthy all over the world come to the US if they have a serious medical condition.<p>There&#x27;s a number of individual places in the US and Europe (and possibly some elsewhere) that attract the rich from all over the world, based on reputation as providing the best care for particular conditions. But the US <i>as a whole</i> does not provide the best overall quality of healthcare (outcomes are about average for the developed world) even before considering overall cost, and has overall cost (whether looked at per GDP or per capita) much higher than the rest of the developed world (per GDP, <i>government</i> spending on healthcare in the US is at a fairly typical level for a developed world country where the vast majority of all health spending is by the government, and <i>private</i> spending on healthcare in the US exceeds government spending.)<p>The inefficiency and wastefulness of US healthcare compared to the rest of the developed world -- most of which have considerably more government involvement in and control of healthcare -- is quite notable.