US Healthcare dares to be different, in a bad way

The political blog FiveThirtyEight has posted a very interesting graph of healthcare spending vs. life expectancy across different countries.  Guess who is out of whack?  See the full post here: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/healthcare-spending-and-life-expectancy.html
The author's detailed/original post was here: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/12/healthcare_spen.html