| Puppyroach said: Well that was convenient, remove life expectancy as a factor in order to reach first place 😊. And publications as well a citations are the usual measurements with which you estimate the success within a field. |
Life expectancy is more than just healthcare policy and I've a source to back it up. More Americans are likely to die from car accidents and violent crimes than a hospital or a prescription drug bill but more the matter is how are you guys getting decimated by the likes of Singapore with your so called "efficient" universal healthcare system ? 
What's more is to add insult to the injury is that Europe has a relatively ethnically homogeneous population which means most countries with "universal healthcare" don't face similar challenges with having to treat a diverse population like you would see with an ethnically varying demographic from America or Singapore yet where is your justification that you guys are somehow getting "value" for your money when Singapore on the other hand massively undercuts you guys by a fraction of the cost yet they earn MORE per capita ?! 
(they also enjoy longer "lifespans" than most of you Europeans on average that you guys like to cite so much as a metric for judging the "quality" of a healthcare system)
Publications and citations aren't everything but what matters most is VALUABLE DATA! Experts will tell you that China often has bad data most of the time and that America has the highest quality data produced by all nations and we can observe the results. In a little under 5 years ago, the US brought a Hepatitis C cure to the market which continues to ravage millions of people with the condition to this day but with China we can see just how disastrous their results were when they suffered from a nationwide medicine scandal a couple of months ago on top of the many other health scandals they've experience in the past decades ...
Take it from a scholar here who specializes (although not in medicine) in an applied science that pushing out papers is cheap but the hardest part being is conducting the experiments and collecting good data to back them up but most importantly take it from the man who was instrumental to the development of a Hepatitis C cure ... (science is more than just the papers of which having good data is more important)
Finally, what advice might you give to young scientists today or those considering a career in science ?
"When I started my first undergrad research in a real lab at Cornell, I was working for a senior grad student, and he says to me “Mike, you know, I want to tell you this first: Eighty percent of what you do will fail. Twenty percent of what you do will succeed in research. If you are not happy with that 20 percent success rate, you don’t belong here.” It stuck with me forever because science is an endeavor where there is a tremendous amount of failure along the way. But the successes—especially in the field of medical research—are tremendously gratifying. You really do have the ability to impact people’s lives throughout the world, and there are very few endeavors I think that will afford you that opportunity." - Michael J. Sofia
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