Sinij, those socialist countries you mention function in that way because they basically act as a corporation that buys health care from USA private corporations. It goes back to the export thing. If they had to do all the R & D, and cover all the structural costs there is no way that ratio would hold water.

The core problem with your arguments sinij, if you only use the data that fits your scenario and ignore things that do not.

Plus the article you linked that has the USA at 18% has and I quote" In 2009, the most recent year with complete data, the industrialized country with the next highest health expenditure per GDP is the Netherlands, at 12 percent, followed closely by France, Germany, Denmark, Canada and Sweden -- all above 11 percent."

You are even using mismatched sources to provide the "best looking" data without regard to consistency.

Plus the bulk of experimental procedures, R & D, trials and absolute top end medicine happens here in the USA.

Also, you might want to look at the ramifications in Sweden.

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA555_Sweden_Health_Care.html

Stop cherry-picking your stats in a manner that amounts to outright twisting of the truth, and examine the entire reality, and you will not be able to defend their policies.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)