"Sorry, I will take the good ol' U.S. of A medicine everyday of the week...."
Okay.....I think I get what got screwed up in translation--- and we're both guilty , me, of not being more clear on what I intended to mean by that.....and you for infering something I did not intend to say.
I certainly WILL take American medicine every day of the week, because we do have a good medical capability here....and I do not wish to have to go to Belize for an appendectomy, or to England, France or elsewhere. This doesn't mean that ours is truly the best in the world, only that there is also a degree of practicality involved in making decisions that means there are other considerations.
For example, a Cadillac may be a better car than a Honda, but the Honda ---assuming both cars in good condition --- will get you there too.
I suppose if faced with a truly catastrophic diagnosis, a consideration of the possibly superior capabilities of another country's medical capabilities may be be taken into account; circa 1990 my father was diagnosed with a very rare form of liver cancer. In trying to locate a good surgeon, he looked into a place in Japan he'D heard had done some very advanced surgery on liver cancers.
He would later, however, locate a good surgeon in Pittsburgh who knew about this type of cancer and agreed to do surgery. Ironically this surgeon was Japanese....but that was only a coincidence.
The treatment gave my father maybe a year of life he would not have had otherwise.
However, in what I said in that quote at the top of this post, I was not intending to mean that American Healthcare was unquestioning superior, just that I would truly prefer to refer myself to local experts should I require life saving medical help.....I do believe we have a good system, and, that it could be a lot better if the government wouldn't keep trying to fix it.
I apologize for my earlier insulting manner and intransigence.....we were truly talking past each other.