Its health care spending...

Ezra Klein: 

America’s crazyquilt of public and private options left us spending more than $7,500 per person on health care — and that’s despite the fact that 50 million Americans are uninsured and tens of millions more are underinsured. That same year, Canada spent $4,079 per person. France spent $3,700. Britain spent $3,129. And no, we’re not living longer than they are, nor getting obviously better care. The irony is that if our health-care spending were more in-line with international norms, we’d have no deficit problem at all.