> Americans on average engage in riskier and unhealthier behaviors than people in similarly developed countries. It is unfair to place the full blame on the medical system for lower life spans when they are not causing them.
Do you have numbers for these claims? What risk taking behaviour is the entire US doing that other countries are not?
>The people with the highest life expectancy in the world are Asian-Americans living in NJ.
And does that group represent the socio-economic gamut? While you're correlating race, I wonder if it ends up being reducible to something like "upper-middle class individuals who don't smoke or drink".