*Doctors engage in protectionism, limiting the supply of doctors by restricting ...

Doctors engage in protectionism, limiting the supply of doctors by restricting the accreditation of medical schools

You might want to check the number of physicians per capita in a lot of different countries

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mss/data%20analysis/Volume%20I%20p...

(the first listed source has a good discussion of methodology)

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/02/health-care-costs-opinions-...

(the second source gets into a lot of related issues)

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_phy_per_1000_peo-physi...

(the third source shows data reported to the United Nations by national governments, some of which I find implausible)

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934558.html

(the fourth source shows extreme cases from the U.N. data)

and look at their mortality and morbidity statistics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate

http://www.who.int/whosis/whostat/2010/en/index.html

to see how much that matters in cross-national comparisons.

Some comments about the recent medical insurance reform bill in Congress suggest that differences between the United States and other countries in health outcomes have more to do with population lifestyle differences than with medical-care differences.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08...

http://www.granttribune.com/index.php?option=com_content&...

http://www.cardiologytoday.com/view.aspx?rID=64007

for a critique of useless medical interventions.