Damien

The US always points out they have the cutting edge treatments there and point to UK cases where people try to raise money to head to some American clinic to get experimental treatment. This is true but these isn't available to vast majority of Americans in the same way it's not available to us. These treatments are just that, experimental, and of limited supply. They're not covered by American insurers in the same way the NHS doesn't pay for them.

In general America do not have better outcomes than us and yet they pay for more of it as a country and per person than we do. Their entire system is a mess. You have co-pays, premiums, 'in-network' hospitals, levels of insurance and deals between insurers and hospital companies that mean simple things can be billed at orders of magnitude the cost. It's mad.

The reason most people go bankrupt isn't even a lack of insurance, it's that their insurance falls short. Until recently basic things could not be covered but there a realms of paperwork to work though.