not really—the us doesn’t outcompete everywhere in every category. for health, the us spends the most per capita yet lags peers on life expectancy and outcomes, and on pisa, the us sits in the high 20s for math with mixed results in reading and science. sources: commonwealth fund

U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating Spending, Worsening Outcomes

This cross-national comparison of health care systems assesses U.S. health spending, outcomes, status, and service use relative to 12 other high-in...

oecd health statistics https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2022/09/understanding-differences-in-health-expenditure-between-the-united-states-and-oecd-countries_cafc404c/6f24c128-en.pdf nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/us/math-scores-pandemic-pisa.html chalkbeat

Chalkbeat

Another test shows U.S. math scores have fallen. But the nation rose in world rankings.

American 15-year-olds did worse in math on the PISA, a key international test, than they did before the pandemic. But the U.S. rose in the world ra...

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PISA 2022 U.S. Results, Mathematics Literacy, Achievement by Student Groups