text: "The United States spends more on health care than any other nation, whether measured by percent of GDP or cost per capita. Yet we ranked 37th among the world’s nations in a 2000 WHO study of health care quality." LTE David E Faris
  
  Another fact that Mr. Faris forgot to mention is that the federal government currently directly controls about 67% of the nations healthcare, right now, today. http://www.pnhp.org/news/2016/january/government-funds-nearly-two-thirds-of-us-health-care-costs-american-journal-of-pub
  
  So if costs are higher and outcomes are worse should not the majority of blame be placed on the organization that directly controls the largest share of healthcare?
  
  But, but, but for-profit insurance companies and the free market and rich people are to blame for all ills because that is what Mr. Faris has been told to believe.