Always pack your towel for space travel!

I don't grant the assumption that innovation is helped with the current US system. It is entirely possible that it is actually hurt considerably compared to other systems. There is a massive incentive to prolong health problems if you make money on treating them. Even without people being evil, when the major learning signal (money) points constantly towards 'prolong the problem' it isn't hard to imagine that the system that evolves from it is actively worse than nearly any other system with a good loss function like 'health' or even just 'fame and notoriety for the scientists involved'