[Kaj]

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I'm also curious to all the people against the concept; of the countries featured on the DVD (Canada, Cuba, France, Norway (#1 for Healthcare) and even many 3rd world countries)... many of these countries supply universal healthcare and there people have better health standards then the US. How do you explain this?

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One reason is that the rest of the world severely underinvests in healthcare research and just lets the US pay for it all. A huge chunk of the money that Americans spend on healthcare is invested in R&D, and a correspondingly huge percentage of healthcare innovations are made in the US.

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This rebuttal falls flat considering much (certainly not all) of the medical R&D in America is funded by the federal government and performed by state universities. Kind of silly to use the success of some government spending as an argument against government spending.

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It's not an argument against government spending, it's an argument against replacing the American system with the National Health Service. Or not even that, it's an explanation of how some countries can provide the results they do without ruinous expense.

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But there's no point to follow if the govt here is already funding much of the research. All you are saying is "America is rich" and leads the world in research. Fine. It would still be doing so with or without universal health care in America. And it already is doing so through massive government involvement anyway. If you could point out a country that leads the world's research through merely private means, you may have a point to make. But here you don't have that.