You and your statist media thing again. Your statement, "However, the care is the best in the world." comes from looking at the wrong media. Do you have non media data on "the long waits"? Whether there are long waits or not, the facts are that people in the US are getting inferior health care by any measure you can make. It looks like you are making blanket statements from gut feelings.
The government has very detailed information at
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/rankorderguide.html
Here is the data for industrialized countries.
US is 37th in the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems. Communist Cuba is only two rankings worse at 39th.
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
http://www.who.int/whr/2000/media_centre/press_release/en/
The US is ranked number 14 in preventable deaths. (US: 110 per 100,000; France: 65 per 100,000)
http://www.allcountries.org/ranks/preventable_deaths_country_ranks_1997-1998_2002-2003_2008.html
The US is 24th in life expectancy.
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthy_life_table2.html
The US is the 72th in health performance
http://www.photius.com/rankings/world_health_performance_ranks.html
The US has the second highest total expenditure on health.
http://www.photius.com/rankings/total_health_expenditure_as_pecent_of_gdp_2000_to_2005.html
In infant mortality US is close to twice as bad compared to Canada, France, Germany, Spain, etc and many with socialized medicine.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html
So being the second from the top in money spent on health care it certainly looks like we are not getting our money's worth and it certainly looks like we are not "the best care in the world"
You say the problem is that health care is too expensive or that Americans have too much access. I would say that a major problem is that America is number one in obesity. But then the right wing objects to interfering with the liberties of what children eat at school. If we could get by the right wing crying foul at taking away liberties for kids to eat crap at McDonalds, or cookies from school vending machines we might be able to raise the ranking of the US. Health care. Maybe our health care system should try more for preventative care rather than paying money to patch up fat people.
