There is quite a large body of medical literature showing that in many measures of mortality and quality of life, the USA ranks much worse than many other countries, despite spending much more on health care. A quick PUBMED search will reveal the cites.
And quite a large body that refutes, that isn't funded by organizations attempting to increase medical spending and increased third party payer strategies.
Notice I put several qualifications in my post, that the studies you suggest don't address. The stats most often quoted are mortality (life expectancy) and "quality of life".
Both of those are influenced LESS by medical capability and availability and MORE by personal behavior.
If you control for equivalent people, AND address the lower and/or different reporting aspects of other countries, and compare MEDICALLY relevant stats (eg life expectancy AFTER diagnosis, or medical success rate, or fraction of diagnosis, etc) the US is far superior.
For instance, we have higher incidence of cancer than many less developed countries....know why? Because in many countries, if someone dies, its only a death due to cancer if the cancer was diagnosed. In the US cancer is diagnosed before death nearly 100% of the time. Because we then TRY to save people,that effects both the survival rates, and the incidence rates.
In other words, if you don't like the treatment here....why not seek medical treatment somewhere else.
As for availability, the reason costs have risen is because there is no real market force to do otherwise.
