This is fine as a high level economic discussion, but I think it misses the point of the complaints from actually US consumers: when I consume healthcare as an individual I am paying with a blank check, and I am therefore likely to be tricked into consuming more health care than I would otherwise choose to afford, perhaps to a ruinous degree.
I think ordinary consumers care much less about whether their country spends a nominal share of GDP on the heath sector, than about whether they will be unexpectedly bankrupt by consuming health services, and this is why people are actually mad.
I think ordinary consumers care much less about whether their country spends a nominal share of GDP on the heath sector, than about whether they will be unexpectedly bankrupt by consuming health services, and this is why people are actually mad.