The amount of money spent doesn't mean anything. The US also pays insane amounts for their health system but the result is a system that's far more expensive than in other countries.

> These were the best paying jobs that many of these workers had had in their entire lives

What does that have to do with health system

You believe so, but at least Wikipedia says the US are 22nd per capita (which is more relevant than the total spending) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_...

> Wikipedia says the US are 22nd per capita

I see USA at 10 in per capita section in your wiki link.

You are right, I have made a mistake there. The USA are 10th in spending per capita and 22nd in spending in percentage of the GDP.

so either way the us is not at position number 1... at that point it doesn't matter.

ok