BBC: "If a politician declares that the United States has the best health care system in the world today, he or she looks clueless rather than patriotic or authoritative."
So says Dr Ezekiel Emanuel, an ethicist at the US National Institutes of Health.
The US health system is in a state of crisis and serious politicians, including several presidential candidates, say the time has come to reform it along the lines of the European or Canadian model. US mulls over healthcare reform (more) By Justin Webb
Mark Alexander
