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It is hard to prove that pretty good care is better than pretty good care. Our costs are higher and to a large degree you get what you pay for and mostly that means convenience - sometimes a convenience like wait times that makes the difference between life and death. (but our costs are also higher because our congress has messed things up)

Well do you really believe that Cuba has better health care then the US. They use statistics and misrepresentation to hide the fact that they have horrible health care. As an example, if a fetus is not deemed to be healthy enough they just abort it rather than spend lots of money trying to save it. Those abortions do not show up in the infant mortality measures but when we exert extreme efforts to save a fetus and sometimes fail that does show up in our infant mortality measures.  In fact this exact scenario plays out to a lesser degree in many European countries too. It also happens at end of life care. Just two evidences.

 I think in general one gets what one pays for. And yes we are paying for a lot of conveniences. But it should be our choice how convenient we want our health care to be and not the gov's choice. If overall we want private rooms (as one example)  and we want to pay for them then that is our choice.

I see us as getting target care at target prices but other countries get walmart care at walmart prices. And walmart and target are both great stores.