While it's interesting to know how we ranked, a link to the study or a brief discussion of methodology would have changed this story into a high quality story.

Excellent article. I've done similar work and found it equates to numbers I have found. If anything, however, it underestimates the problem.

Good but limited story. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/1/58 is the address. Small registration fee. This is an update of a previous study that had been a bit better for our country, as I recall.

Excellent information, particularly now, when all the GOP candidates are making flat statements that the US has the best health care system in the world. A paragraph which included info about the study methodolgy and what exactly the study sponsor, the Commonwealth Fund is... a think tank... a health care institute or what.

yes-- too bad that American media can't perform as well; I wish our presidential hopefuls would respond to this information.