'Flimflammery'USS of American health care doubly expensive with worst result

Al Franken in Giant of the Senate finds that the American Dental Association doesn't want competition. In his case it was from Alaska natives trained as dental therapist so that they could serve rural outposts where full fledged dentist would never practice.  While he wins the argument his law ran up against State licensing requirements which nullified it. Rather than identify the barriers to entry in American health where we spend twice the percent of GDP of a Germany, as an example of a well developed large economy, with poorer outcomes. In the case of mothers giving birth, grossly poorer. The headline U.S. Has Highest Maternal Deaths Among Developed Countries shows the "flim flammery"uss of the claim that we have the best health care in the world.