Enormous spending on health care in the U.S. does not result in longer life expectancy or even better health care.

Disproportionately enormous spending on health care in the U.S. does not result in longer life expectancy or even better health care. The reason seems pretty obvious -- your health care dollars are being dumped by the truckload into a layer of middle-man red tape.

This graph and others like it should also help debunk the popular myth that universal health care systems cost more than the insurance-industry-controlled system the U.S. has.