Surprise, you can actually apply metrics to our healthcare system and see whether it’s effective or not. This blog entry at Harvard attempts to break out the numbers and explain why our system could use some work.
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/08/how_effective_is_american_heal.html?cm_mmc=npv-_-DAILY_ALERT-_-AWEBER-_-DATE