I'm not hot shit in a wineglass, more curried goat in a paper cup

I just got back into Facebook after two weeks away and I wish I hadn't. My blood pressure rose right off. A cousin of mine posted "Why isn't anyone talking about how folks from Socialized Med countries come here for our equipment and advanced medical techniques??? Amazing!! Also why is Congress planing on keeping the medical program they use now??????"

Now obviously his overuse of punctuation indicates his mind is unbalanced, and given that his wife is dying of cancer I'm not surprised, but really. I guess one always expects more of one's family. And since he is family I composed something to respond to him with, but then I thought maybe I ought not since he's actually only distant family and under no obligation to listen and hear and rationally debate. But tell me if I'm completely out in left field with this response...

They aren't talking about people coming here from Socialized Medicine countries to use our equipment and techniques partly because it would require so much explanation as to what sort of situation would bring that about. Countries which have socialized medicine triage people for use of their equipment based on their medical need - so they may have the machine but someone who's low on the need list is millionth in line to use it. If they have some money they just bung off to the U.S. and pay to use the machine. So, you know, it does happen, sure, but it's not usually because they actually need to. Also, a lot of the techniques that are being touted as the latest and greatest thing are really not the greatest, they're just expensive, so the insurance companies like to push doctors to use them.

Does that make sense? Does it hit the salient points? Should I write up something longer and more detailed, with footnotes and references, and post it somewhere that people can see it, and then reference him to it? I'm not sure I have the energy. I certainly don't, as I said, have the energy to start facing him directly and trying to argue it on the fly. But the attitude frustrates me. We might have the 'best' medical care in the world in some ways, but quick Google searches show that our infant mortality rate, according to the CIA's site, is between that of the Faroe Islands and Cuba. (Those figures are actually estimated for 2009, but I picked the CIA site because I figured any Republican will believe that the CIA reports.) And according to InfoPlease (who I can't vouch for, they could be anyone) we spend nearly twice as much per capita for our health care in the U.S. as anyone in Australia or Canada. But how can I support my belief that other first world countries DO have the equipment? What should I search on?

Crap, I'm hungry and I'm getting depressed by the stupid again. And I'm still on the cusp as to whether I should go to work. I have to make up my mind in the next fifteen minutes.