Investors Business Daily has a nice chart summarizing some key statistics, including survival rates for various cancers, waiting periods for treatments, and the supply of medical scanners:
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Here's the related article.
As John LaPlante notes:
We certainly don't have a perfect approach to health care in this country. But we're doing some things right... We should build on what we've got right--a modicum of freedom from government control--not remove it.