[JBlue42]

People always bring out the population or area size of the US as an excuse against why we can't try to do better.

[citrablue]

I think people bring out the population or area size in order to explain where facile comparisons fall down. Scale matters.

[geezerjay]

This fictional scaling problem makes as much sense as correlating the effect of some public policies on the height of the political leader or average temperature. It's a silly scapegoat that makes no sense at all.