The problem with cherry picked data is that it seldom stands up to a deeper examination of facts.  Whoever wrote the template for this letter chose to compare hospital death rates for the US and France.    France has a national hospice program for the terminally ill, funded by the government.  That would greatly reduce their number of in hospital deaths.   Comparing total deaths might have provided a better insight into overall health.  France's death rate per 1,000 population is 9.06.  It is 8.15 in the US.    The US bests France five year survival rate for cancer diagnoses, with the exception of Childhood leukemia.  More men in France die before reaching 65 y.o., than in the US.  All these statistics, incuding the ones in your letter are meaningless.  For every health industry lobbyist influencing Congress, there is one from a national non-profit health organization.  Instead of simply bashing the status quo, how about suggesting informed soutions to individual problems?