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Only two of those statistics have anything to do with actual quality of health care, and they're the same two that are trotted out every single time. Both infant mortality and life expectancy have many variables other than health care systems.

The rest are all based on the odd assumption that quality of health care is directly a consequence of how much of it is controlled by the government. If this were the case, totalitarian nations would have the best health care in the world.

The WHO report uses the same criteria, putting America way down the list after final scoring. It's easy for those who don't read the reports to overlook the categories where the U.S. ranks high, but in a category these organizations score low. For example, the U.S. is number one in responsiveness, which only ranks about 12 percent in the overall score.

Health care costs in Canada are rising rapidly too, which implies that single-payer isn't the cure-all for health costs.

Personally, I find Cato a bit more reliable than Wikipedia, although I did like that bit on Wikipedia telling us that long wait times are GOOD for you.

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