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> Again, saying "other countries do it" isn't really an answer.

It very much is part of the answer as it gives successful examples and as such proof how it's very much realistic to achieve, if effort was actually put into it.

Which is a much more constructive PoV than acting like even American problems are so exceptional that all of them need equally exceptional and unique solutions that no other country before could have figured out.

> Policies don't exist in a vacuum.

Indeed, that's why between Greece, Mexico and the US I would easily chose Greece, which has nearly half of the infant mortality rate of the US [0].

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.MORT



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