[gavanwoolery]

Thanks, this is an interesting story. As I mentioned, I think there are plenty of things wrong with our healthcare system, and I only use the word "best" in a very broad sense - for example, the US has the highest rate of success for therapies and surgery (In Britain, for example, only half as many people survive colon cancer, although that could be related to any number of factors). I am sure there are many experimental areas of medicine where the US does not excel, because we have to wade through so much red tape to get anything approved.