The grey countries on this map tend to spend significantly less per capita on health care than do the green countries — except for the U.S., where the government spends way more on health care per person than do most countries with free, universal health care. This is also true of health care costs as a share of national GDP — in other words, how much of a country’s money goes into health care.
“The overall level of health spending in the United States is so high that public (i.e. government) spending on health per capita is still greater than in all other OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] countries, except Norway and the Netherlands,” according to a recent OECD report, which covers most of the developed world.

Incidentally, Cuba, which has one of the most advanced medical systems in the world, does not have it due to socialism. Long before Fidel Castro took power, Cuba, like most civilized countries in the world, already had a national health care system. This is no big deal. Its like having a Post Office or a Coast Guard. Real countries do this for their people.

Even after Obamacare is fully implemented, we will still not have a true National Health Plan, like they have in the UK. We will have a hybrid, Rube Goldberg system designed primarily to keep the insurance industry happy.