Nearly every high income country with single payer healthcare and heavily unionized medical workforces has better health outcomes and spends less for them than the United States.
The American exceptionalism on display in this article is embarrassing. The WSJ editorial page once again distills the "common sense" of small and medium size businesspeople who cannot think beyond their own balance sheet.
Which is a bigger problem for U.S. healthcare: a unionized nurse demanding better patient/nurse ratios or insurance companies that return huge profits to shareholders while second-guessing the treatment recommendations of doctors?