Having experienced hospitlzations in the USA and Scandannavia, we in the USA have better care.

It also helps to be a country that is ethnically homogenous and have a population around 10million people helps for that blended system. It falls apart as it grows bigger than that because then their industry can no longer support it.

I also was able to buy private health insurance for 250 euros a year. It was underwritten by Mitsubishi and the market is pooled throughout the EU. I know the private model works well without big insurance and pharma gaming the system. I have seen it with my own eyes.