[quote=alysheba4]lets say you or a loved one needed brain surgery, heart surgery.....or any major surgery fort that matter..........would you go outside the u.s?[/QUOTE
That's not on any scale of how one rates the healthcare systems of the world, is it?
Success rates? Post-sx infections rates? What types and numbers of surgical procedures are available? What part of "surgery" are you talking about?
Surgery is such a small part of any healthcare system. Surgical skill relates to the individual facility protocol and the doctor's hands, not what anybody else in the country is doing.
You can have an outstanding, state-of-the-art surgical facility in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of nothing. Our military does that all the time
There are many procedures and treatments, surgical and non-surgical, that are not approved within the US, but are in other countries, and have been for some time.
There are many, MANY older Americans who cannot afford healthcare in this, their own country. They must purchase medications illegally from other countries. It's also very common for Americans to have to go to other countries for certain surgical procedures that they cannot afford here, that are less expensive elsewhere.
Sorry - on any of the different object measures of "healthcare quality", America unfortunately isn't first. Nor often even in the top 10.