if you can pay for it, we have the best healthcare in the world. However, a substantial (and growing) portion of our population canīt afford even passable healthcare. Hence our shitty rank. Growing up in the inner city= growing up in a third world country in terms health outcomes. Check out:
http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.pdf
I would post the actual WHO report if I could (instead of an article citing it), but it is only available to universities and organizations. By the way I rechecked my facts, our actual rank as of last WHO report was 37th. That ranking is based on 7 good indicators such as infant mortality, life expectancy, portability... generally indicators that can be measured quantitatively using public information.
You are correct that my statement was an opinion, but it is an opinion that is formed and supported by an overwhelming amount of evidence. As for your comment about canada? Coronary bypass surgery is performed too much in America, and too little in Canada. That being said, they trounce us in almost every meaningful way you can measure healthcare systems. Their national healthcare system better serves their population. They are rewarded with a more healthy populace without health disparities. Also our seniors have been known to run to canada to buy prescription drugs...
Here is the our harlem men losing to bangladesh article from the NE journal of medicine:
http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Ineq...lth-Marmot.htm