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We also license 16-year-old kids, with minimal training. You?

That's not hard to do--just abort teenagers' babies before they're born, or let them die without counting them. Teen babies are much higher risk, so just killing them instead of counting them improves average life expectancy at birth quite a bit.

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And, as above, how many Cuban teenagers (or adults) can even afford cars, much less lose their lives at young ages crashing them? In the US that particular cause-of-death disproportionately kills young people. And, when young people die, that brings down the averages, naturally.

Life-expectancy at age 40 would be a better indication of medical efficacy, eliminating infant-mortality reporting games, but we suffer there too from having so many fat people. Being fat causes heart disease and increases cancer risk dramatically--our #1 and #2 killers.

A better (but still flawed) measure of medical care quality is that of medical outcomes for matched populations of equally sick patients. That is, directly checking how well patients with medically treatable conditions fare, country-to-country.

Poke around a bit. You'll be surprised.

-- Cheers, James Arthur