CBS/New Republic: Health Care Like The Europeans Do It : France And Germany Are Prime Examples Of Successful Universal Health Care - by Jonathan Cohn.

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Relative to other highly advanced countries, the United States lags well behind the leaders when it comes to infant mortality, overall life expectancy, and life expectancy at 65. In fact, on all three, the United States is actually lower than the average for the nations of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. If you live in Canada, Japan, or virtually any part of Western Europe or Scandinavia, then you're expected to live longer than if you do in the United States.

The fact that countries with universal health care routinely outperform the United States on many fronts — and that, overall, their citizens end up healthier — ought to be enough, at least, to discredit the argument that universal care leads to worse care.