Chart of per capita expenditure of health systems (International comparisons)

Direct comparisons of health statistics across nations are complex. The Commonwealth Fund, in its annual survey, "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall", compares the performance of the health systems in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the United States Its 2007 study found that, although the United States system is the most expensive, it consistently underperforms compared to the other countries. A major difference between the United States and the other countries in the study is that the United States is the only country without universal health care. The OECD also collects comparative statistics, and has published brief country profiles.[36][37][38] Health Consumer Powerhouse makes comparisons between both national health care systems in the Euro health consumer index and specific areas of health care such as diabetes [39] or hepatitis.[40]

Reference 1: Life expectancy, Infant mortality rate[41], Preventable deaths per 100,000 people in 2007[42], Physicians per 1000 people, Nurses per 1000 people, Per capita expenditure on health (USD PPP), Healthcare costs as a percent of GDP, % of government revenue spent on health and % of health costs paid by government.

Reference 2: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_system