[onetwothreefour]

None of what you said is either backed by facts or is actually worth remembering if you're trying to fix the problem.

I always read your replies to threads about health care in the US and I'm always left with two thoughts: "what does that even mean and how does it further the conversation?"

If you bothered to actually follow the link to the data (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CPOP/DBASSE_080393), you'd see that none of what you said is accurate. The US is either at the end or, sometimes, in the middle of the rankings for everything. The Violence graph is particularly interesting.

[tptacek]

It would be helpful if you could be clearer about which of those points "isn't backed by the facts" and which are "not worth considering", assuming those are disjoint sets.