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>>>The quality of health care provided in the United States is superior to the rest of the world. If it weren't you'd hear a lot more about Americans leaving the States for emergency treatments. Instead there are countless stories of people coming here, be they foreign dignitaries or our neighbors to the north who don't want to wait months for a simple procedure. (According to the Fraser Institute's 2006 waiting list study, the waiting times are continuing to get worse each year.)
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>>If you count life expectancy and infant mortality as factors - no way.
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>>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-fleetwood/cuba-has-better-medical-c_b_19664.html
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>>If you count provision of CT scans, MRI scans, up-to-date ERs, latest laser eqpt, ground-breaking new procedures/operations, medical research, etc., etc. then I guess no-one can beat the USA.
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>I am referring to medical advancements in procedures, techniques and drugs. Specifically, I was making the case that the American system has led to these advancements.

I think that's a non-sequitur, Jake.

Many many many medical advancements have been made in countries where socialized medicine is the norm. I'd bet more collectively than have been 'invented' in the U.S.
So capitalism and "the American system" has nothing to do with it.

I would suspect that the U.S. does have the largest number of inventions for a single country as far as the medical field goes, but it isn't even close to being the sole domain of the U.S.
So I'd say there is ZERO relationship between any "system" and the inventions they produce.