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Host, the US tends for cultural reasons to have higher obesity rates and mortality from car accidents (mainly becaues we drive more). That means our health statistics are not strictly comparable to countries with greater population density because they have fewer automotive-related deaths and countries with better eating habits than Americans. That's just two factors off the top of my head. Americans also tend to insist on more drastic measures to save marginally viable babies, so the infant mortality numbers are somewhat worse in the US than in other countries. These are cultural differences, not differences in quality of health care, and they have very little to do with the government. They are a consequence primarily of the individualist culture in this country.
Your stats are interesting but you're drawing inferences that may or may not be justified. You haven't established anything about why the numbers are different, only that they are different. Beyond that you're just making assumptions. For example, in a town of Jehovah's Witnesses where they refuse blood transfusions, there are going to be more deaths of a certain type than in other places - but it won't be due to inadequate medical care in the JW town, it'll be due to the cultural difference about transfusions. In other words, you're succumbing to the same fallacy I talked about earlier, which is that you're isolating a data point and constructing a huge inverted pyramid of inference on top of it that isn't warranted.
And my other point isn't better dead than red, that is a massive misstatement. It is that you should consider carefully your romance with left-wing dictatorships. A country whose self-glorifying dictators purchase the submission and quiescence of its citizens with "free" medical care is not a model we should want to follow. Socialized services were originated by Bismarck as a way to keep the populace quiet and narcotized in order to stave off demands for democracy. Cuba is no different.
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