Nice to know America is the only first world country. I live in Australia where we have universal coverage and it's not perfect I pay $100 a month for private care which let's me have a non- urgent elective operation within 2 weeks ( the free public system is more like 12 months).. If I am in an Accident I go to the free system and it 's that free. Broken leg or severe injuries I pay nothing but the medication once I leave hospital. As for the best research only coming out of America it was an Australian team that developed the cervical cancer vaccine.