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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.
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Really? How about comparing Canada and Australia then? They drive a lot in those places, too. These countries have brought down their road death rates down more than the US.
And if the Irish had had a better, more varied diet during the 19th C. fewer of them would have starved or had to emigrate. The potato famine had nothing to do with global trade, colonialism, distribution of wealth, or anything like that. It was all the fault of white trash culture. Right?
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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.
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Babies are saved so infant mortality rates are worse? This makes no sense.
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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.
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Or perhaps the individualist culture is a an adaptive response to the inadequacies of the American social infrastructure.
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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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It being one of the features of a socialist society, it would be odd if Cuba didn't have socialised services.