Yes, because researching medicine and science in a University is exactly the same as practicing medicine in a hospital.  It doesn't matter how good the doctors and nurses are, if the system doesn't function optimally then they are limited in how effective they can be.  Furthermore a large portion of medical training is done after graduation which has nothing to with the quality of universities and everything to do with effective training in the workplace.

You may like the American medical system and THINK it is the best in the world and as much as i'd like to take your word for it i'm almost certain that most American doctors would not agree with you.  I know the ones that i have spoken to that have worked in the system absolutely wouldn't agree with you, and frankly they are just a little more credible than you on this topic.

Thats pretty irrelivant. Discovering new medicine has nothing to do with the healthcare system.

Health Care Vouchers

spend it or donate it

paid by internet sales tax

Now you're just being silly.

World class medical colleges produce world class doctors.

world class doctors ≠ world class health system.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/89xx/doc8948/01-31-HealthTestimony.pdf

Figure 1 demonstrates that per-capita spending on healthcare has grown from $1,000 to over $6,000 (when adjusted for inflation and measured in 2005 dollars) from 1965 to 2005, and total healthcare spending has grown from $250 Billion to over $2 Trillion in the same timeframe (when adjusted for inflation and measured in 2005 dollars).

Figure 3 demonstrates that healthcare represented 5% of GDP in 1965 and represented 15% of GDP in 2005

Realistically, a national healthcare system does nothing to control the costs associated with the largest factor to the cost explosion in healthcare. Now, there are two areas of massive expense that account for more than 90% of all healthcare costs (regardless of who delivers the service); bureaucracy and preventable illnesses. If people focused as much effort in arguing how to eliminate bureaucracy and preventable illnesses as they do in arguing who should pay for healthcare we would probably be able to reduce the cost of healthcare to a level where it doesn’t matter who pays for it.

Personally, I don't even understand how someone can get sick and walk out of a hospital down there with 100k in hospital bills and be expected to pay that.

I guess I just take universal health care for granted, because the alternative seems crazy.

This, is going on my sig.

Or, if you prefer, let's look at it like this:

-Every G8 Nation except the United States provides universal health care(to slightly varying degrees, so don't nitpick)
-The last time the WHO ranked the quality of health care in the countries of the world(in 2000), every one of the G8 except Russia was listed ahead of the United States.

To me, that says that Universal Health care is a good thing.

^Or the methodology of the study was flawed.
Or that the USA can't feasibly do what smaller nations can.
Or what HappySquirrel said.