Reforming America's Health Care System

Medical care in the United States has often been criticized, in highly publicized rankings (most notably the World Health Organization's report on health care in almost two hundred nations), as inferior compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Why, then, has much of the public remained steadfast in its opposition to the reforms imposed by Congress and President Obama? In multiple surveys, more than 80 percent of Americans are satisfied with the quality of their own health care, revealing a fundamental truth: Americans understand, from personal experience, that, despite its sometimes prohibitive costs, American medical care is the best in the world.