I happily admit this doesn't show us ranking as low as I recalled and it's hard to track down everything I've read on the subject, but here's some perspective on our health spending.
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2016/01/how-does-nhs-spending-compare-health-spending-internationally
we put on the least money as a percentage of gdp of any of the 17 original eu members.
we have the second lowest number of hospital beds per 1000 in the entire eu.
the NHS was as recently as 2010 the most efficient in the world.
An American system would cost at least 2.5 times more and leave...