What if we're accepting subpar health care because of the US influence?

We have public health insurance. The US doesn't, and they're very loud and have us surrounded and outnumbered.

We're more inclined than we should be to think our system is mad crazy awesome just because it's better than the US's - after all, no matter what happens, there is no possible way, no matter what goes wrong, we can possibly end up with a hospital bill that's larger than our annual income. Conversely, whenever there's discussion about whether we should be changing our health care system, there's always a disproportionate US influence in the conversation, as though that's the only other plausible option.

What if this is really skewing our perception? What if our system is only mediocre, and looking at the US will make it worse, and where we really should be looking is, say, Japan?

Why don't we tune them out for a bit and see what the rest of the world has to say?