No comment on health care or insurance.
But on the subject of the (un)informed population, I would just comment that it isn't just a US thing. One of the sites I frequent did an exercise to ask US and British citizens to label a map of each other's part of the world. See the link for more examples. Results were pretty good.
Link here:
This is What Happens When Americans are Asked to Label Europe and Brits are Asked to Label the US «TwistedSifter
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