If the U.S. sytem is so bad and poor how come our GDP is bigger then the next five largest contries "combined" ! The healthcare in the U.S. is #1 in the world.(posted 7441 days ago)And the number of children in poverty number is bogus, stats that are skewed based on locations (rural area where cost of living is very low) poverty is the u.s. is defined as anyone living on less the $17K per year of "reported" income. While there are certainly poor here and everywhere else _ I have been to France and there are homeless same with Japan.