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by Jensson 354 days ago
Why don't you include Mexico when you compare America to Europe? Are you trying to mislead someone?

The parts of Europe that weren't a part of Soviet overwhelmingly have better life expectancy than USA. Including the ex-soviet/communist states is like adding Mexico to US statistics.

Edit: Map of the soviet blocks, you can see it very closely correlates with this life expectancy map. When people compare Europe to USA, they compare western Europe, the soviet block states are not relevant in the comparison.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Europe-b...