>France, Japan, China -- these are in fact highly centralized economies which means that they are able to operate national, robust healthcare and military systems with surprising efficiency.

France and Japan are suffering from the cost disease. China's healthcare system is more private than the US system. It's also pretty primitive at the moment so not a great point of comparison.

I think your cursory analysis is sloppy.

>amateur (libertarian) bloggers

Ah the irony..