Define superior. Look at infant mortality alone despite the US being ranked first in SPENDING per capita

https://www.ajmc.com/view/us-has-highest-infant-maternal-mortality-rates-despite-the-most-health-care-spending

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/us-ranks-last-among-seven-countries-health-system-performance

We have a public option through the marketplace which was absolutely gutted by republicans who were bought and sold by insurance company lobbyists.

Most “private” healthcare has such insanely high deductibles it puts people into crippling debt, and the hospitals are often either owned or run by insurance companies allowing them to have a monopoly over how and when medical issues are covered.

I have arguably the best insurance you can get through a private company and when we had our kid it still cost us $3500 out of pocket. Compared to other countries, this is 10-20x the cost of giving birth there.

I’ll agree with you on NY but LA has an absolute shit food scene outside of tacos and Korean food (with the occasional hot dog place). Pan Asian isn’t bad but outside of that it’s all shit. Chicago and Miami have much better food scenes than LA.

Source: lived in LA the better part of a decade during food scene booms / busts. Grew up in Chicago, went to school in New York, now live in Miami.

I mean they’re not wrong. We have absolutely atrocious public health care, nearly non existent public transport in most cities, and there’s no such thing as work life balance unless you’ve got a really highly skilled service-level job.