Thanks to Eamon for flagging this one up.

As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we've overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the rest of the world. All the other industrialized democracies have faced problems like ours, yet they've found ways to cover everybody -- and still spend far less ...

Stross on al-Megrahi and US healthcare

"Any nation as rich as ours ought to guarantee health coverage for all of its residents. "

Summary with links

The US is the only major industrialised country that does not provide regular healthcare to all its citizens. Instead, they are required to provide for themselves – and 50 million people can't afford the insurance. As a result, 18,000 US citizens die every year needlessly, because they can't access the care they require. That's equi…

Nobel Prize winner on US health

Abi Sutherland on health care in the US, the UK and the Netherlands

It's not so much the funding mechanism, more the medical business culture.

Comparison of health care data in 30 developed countries including the USA

Horror stories of the US so-called health system

More stories of the US health care system, for which primitive is too polite a word