[WatchDog]

Here is a comparison of US life expectancy vs a selection of socialist governed nations[0].

US life expectancy may have plateaued, but doesn't appear to be in decline, and it's still above even Cuba, which has perhaps the highest amount of social spending on healthcare as portion of GDP.

Meanwhile, Venezuela and Mexico are in clear declines.

With regards to which extremes of the political spectrum have the highest body counts, I would say the far-left Marxist states are the clear winners, with somewhere in the region of 42 to 160 million killed.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...

[munk-a]

Just to clarify it looks like that chart has a number of specifically chosen countries. I'd suggest you add some more western countries with socialized medicine - Canada is well above the US as is the UK and I think those are both pretty comparable to the US in terms of personal wealth... Oh also Sweden is well above, but Sweden tends to be an outlier due to just how well socialism is working there.

Here is a copy of the chart with some additional countries: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...

[WatchDog]

Yeah, it was certainly cherry picked to illustrate a point.

Australia is even higher than Sweeden, yet both the UK and Australia are currently governed by conservative parties.

I'm an Australian myself, and in favor of socialized medicine, I just get annoyed by characterization of left vs right as a good vs evil scenario, as our polarized political discussion so often likes to do.