[akiselev]

Cancer and cardiovascular disease outcomes are a strange way to measure how much of the population is in poor health, especially when US life expectancy has fallen for three years straight, more than half the country is obese or overweight, and it has the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world. None of that even remotely implies good health.

[kp98]

Im not saying it is a great healthcare system, just that it isn't so bad as to be comparable to the soviet union. At any rate, life expectancy also seems like a strange way to measure the health care system. To measure the health of the general population sure, but we're talking about the healthcare system, and I don't think that those who actively destroy their bodies via drugs or junk food are giving us an accurate picture of the real efficacy of the system. That being said if you want to look at those deaths and say the healthcare system isn't doing enough for them - then fair enough. I would just look at something like decreasing life expectancy caused by suicides and opioids and say maybe this has something to do with wealth inequality rather than the efficacy of our healthcare.