It's funny, this entire chain started because someone claimed the US spent less than all those other countries and I corrected them.

> has lower life expectancy, infant mortality, childbirth safety

You completely misread my post, because I specifically addressed this point. The reason you look at treatments of specific diseases to judge quality of health care rather than something like life expectancy is that life expectancy depends more on things outside the health care system's control than in it. If you get shot or die in a car accident, that wasn't the doctor's fault, a population with much higher rates of obesity will die at a faster clip than one without, even with the exact same care, etc.