I can give you the facts of our failings: Health care spending in the U.S. as a percentage of GDP is 1.5 times that of any country you've heard of. In the 34-nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the average is 3.1 physicians and 3.4 hospital beds for every 1,000 people, while those figures in the U.S. are 2.4 and 2.6. In 2010, the average life span in OECD countries was 79.8 years; in the U.S., 78.7. Medical expenses, according to a Harvard University study of bankruptcy court statistics, account for roughly 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. — and 72 percent of that group had health insurance.