In terms of health care, the U.S. may be, to use a Trump-style superlative, the worst country in the world. Spending on health care will soon account for 20 percent of our gross domestic product, which is about twice that of other wealthy countries. And we have little to show for it. Americans aren't healthier than people elsewhere—in many ways the opposite—and are more likely than most to have no access to health care at all.
Our system is inferior and getting worse, and as spending increases, the system stands to take the rest of our economy down with it. It's critical that everyone know more about health care than Donald Trump appears to.
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