The U.S. health care system comes up smelling like a putrid rose in a survey that compares how citizens in 10 countries feel about their nation’s health care situation.

The report on the survey–actually, several surveys combined–published by Harris Interactive can be found here.

While the  finding that Americans don’t like their health care system surprises no one, it is interesting to see that the other health care systems reviewed also have many detractors. The Harris Interactive researchers sum up their findings this way:

  • Regardless of what system a country has, it falls short of public expectations. Most health care systems appear to be continuously in or on the brink of crisis.
  •  Governments in all 10 countries that were studied are either changing or debating how to change their system.