Personally, I think if America wanted to model itself after any system, it should be the Japanese. They spend only about 7.7% of GDP on health care, ranked #10. What makes this even more interesting is they also have the highest percentage of seniors in the world. The biggest usurers of health care.

Haha, almost every country on the Arabian peninsula is rated higher than the states. Maybe wahhabism has something over our republican christian fundamentalists. 

W.H.O. ranking of the world's health systems (2000). Some of the countries ranked higher than the U.S. are surprising.