[rayiner]

> Americans have to wait until age 65 to get socialized medicine, which is why the majority of Americans approve of expanding Medicare to all age groups.

It’s hard to analyze. But people slightly under the age 65 line with private insurance (60-64), and those slightly over with Medicare + private insurance (65-69), have higher survival rates than those with Medicare alone (65-69). https://hollingscancercenter.musc.edu/news/archive/2021/05/1...

> I’m quite doubtful that affluent European countries have similar inequality levels that the US has with, e.g., the wide gap between infant mortality rates between Black and white women.

It’s even higher outside the U.S. In the Uk, the black infant mortality rate in the UK is 3x the white rate, versus 2x in the U.S. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/09/b...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/black-infant-mortality-rate-do...

France would be the other Western European country with a large black population, but they don’t allow collecting racial statistics.