Our life styles are considered by many to be the best in the world.
Conveniences abound and the transfer of knowledge, both business and medical, flows freely.
This country must also be blessed with an inordinately high number of geniuses who rapidly accumulate knowledge, evidently through speed-reading and osmosis. These enlightened beings often rise to the top of the executive, military leader and policy-maker echelon. When a company stinks that bad, like a fish, one looks to the head first. In predictable fashion, he blamed investors, the corporate organizational structure and the rise in their spending for medical claims. That's a free-market system.