These are some of the reasons why my wife and I moved from the US to France -- she's French, I'm American; but I can't imagine returning to the nightmare complexity of billings and profiteering that the US system has become...
I'm American and live in Norway. I feel the same. My out of pocket here is around $300, after which a lot of things simply become free. I don't have to consider whether or not I can afford to take care of something, and I have trouble explaining how much lower my stress levels are because of it.
My taxes aren't higher than in the US: IN fact, they might be lower than taxes plus insurance premiums - and that doesn't even touch on the deductibles.