It is similar to universities, the US has some exceptional hospitals/universities and a lot of mediocre ones. Exceptional facilities are more accessible to certain groups than others. Many European countries strive for a high average, perhaps not as good as the US's best, but much better than the US average, and they are accessible to everyone [1].

My parents also lived in the US (and IIRC they were on private insurance), but no way would they want to trade European healthcare/education for the US counterpart.

At any rate, all the statistics show that the US pays ~twice as much for health care with worse outcomes for the general public.

if you have a well paying job with good employee provided HC

It's always so surprising that people from the US do not see the issue with this. Let's say, assuming that you are in tech, I hope you don't get laid off in the next round.

[1] I have to add a bunch of qualifiers here, because the EU or Europe is not a single country and some countries have private insurance, private clinics, etc.