where you are going wrong is that you are including the poor and stupid people. people that work hard for a living and dont do drugs are very healthy.

Do you even read my replies. I mean seriously, you keep arguing a point that I did not make. I'll try again. We don't unequivocally have the best healthcare system in the world. That's up for debate. We do however have the best healthcare in the world. Can you sit there and tell me if you have a massive head trauma or some other issue you would rather be in another country because in that country everyone receives health care and it's cheaper. Good for you, I'll stay in the country that has the highest trained and highest paid doctors and dumps the most money into research. This goes even moreso for a cancer or organ disease diagnosis.

Now answer this honestly. Do you really think Life expectancy is a direct correlation to health care?

None of which are a direct cause of our country's healthcare but are a function of numerous cultural, religious, and behavioral factos by the way.

First of all 20% of the 47 million are not american citizen's. BCBS contends that another 11 million are eligible for medicaid or medicare and just don't sign up and another 10 million can afford healthcare but elect not to have it. That leaves us with about 16 million. I guess this number is disputed but it is what BCBS claims about the 47 million number. I can't find anyone else that really breaks it down past citizens and non citizens

I implore (is emplore correct?) you to understand that you can't judge a country's healthcare by their level of health and life expectancy. That's naive.

Imagine if we added in the ones that are murdered before they are born.