Never in its rich history when the United States is dealing with so many families who need hospital bills help. A large part of the blame should go to its broken health system that seems to favor the insurance companies more than the policy holders; the haves more than the have nots. It's interesting that this is happening in what is arguably the remaining superpower in the world yet continues to perform poorly compared to other industrialized countries in terms of providing medical benefit to their poor constituents.

In this country, more than 40 million Americans have no insurance to speak of and there are millions more who are inadequately covered. Even if the federal government is spending more than $7,000 for each American, the number of deaths that would have been avoided hits 22,000 annually. Here's a worrying tidbit: the U.S. ranks 37th in World Health Organization's health system assessment.

Want to know which countries ranked ahead of the US? France leads the pack followed by Italy. The third, fourth and fifth though went to Andorra, San Marino, and Malta. It's safe to say that majority of Americans don't recognize the three countries

By the way, Principality of Andorra is located in southwestern Europe between France and Spain. Republic of San Marino is one of Europe's microstates just like Andorra. Republic of Malta, meanwhile, is located in southern Europe bounded by Sicily, Tunisia and Alexandria.

It could be argued though that the population of Andorra and San Marino of about 80,000 and 30,000, respectively are the main reasons why their governments can afford to provide hospital bills help, but what can account for the other densely populated nations ahead of the US? Countries like Spain, Singapore, Greece, Portugal, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium, among others?

Even its south and central American neighbors like Colombia, Chile and Costa Rica outpaced the US in terms of health care. As you can see from the list, there's a lot of room for improvement as far as the US health industry is concerned. And the reforms should come sooner than later as more and more families need hospital bills help each passing minute that we don't do something.

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