Sounds pretty bad. Here, you might have to make an appointment a week or two ahead as we have a shortage of medical personal and pay out of pocket, about C$100, in a professional setting with prices for those few things like your medical that I don't think are covered, it's a short list.

I recently read an observation that a lot of America's GDP was health related, ie, they spend a lot on healthcare.
An example that was on the local news here in BC. Vasectomies, government pays about C$125 for the procedure, there is a month wait. One Doctor went private (in Canada, it is a binary choice between private and public) and charged about C$250 for the procedure. He is retiring and turned his practice over to a young Doctor inspired by America. He is charging C$2000 for the 10 minute procedure. The news was whether the government pays enough.
Now the difference between a 10 minute procedure generating $125-250 of economic activity compared to $2000 is a good order of magnitude. Seems this is common in America, which means an order of magnitude of more GDP just from healthcare. The difference is how triage happens. Here, those most in need go to the front of the line, great if you have cancer or need heart surgery etc, shitty if you need a knee, but not badly. America, who has the most money goes to the front of the line.

The problem is that "Republicanism" is spreading to other countries. Here in Canada, the Federal Conservative party now seems very like American Republicans with the attacks on various social issues such as equality (gays should be attacked), science, especially climate change, along with gas lighting and basically hateful rhetoric. Last election they scored more votes then in 40 plus years and only lost due to the collapse of the left and Trump. Their leader sounds very Trump like, except not so stupid with 50% hating him and 50% loving, or at least supporting him. In my Province, the dormant Conservative party, who hadn't won a seat in 70 years, came out of no where and also barely lost the election. Even at the municipal level, where traditionally there are no parties, they're planning on running and likely succeeding quite often.
In Europe, I see similar far right parties doing very well, perhaps not winning currently but eventually it becomes time for a change and instead of a right wing mostly interested in financial conservationism, it is social issues, immigrants etc. Hungary, now Italy to a degree, and else where, Turkey, India and in particular Israel, which seems to be doing ethnic cleansing.

Are corporations also citizens? Most countries limit non-citizens political rights, no voting or political contributions for example. Mobility rights are another one that is limited to citizens and perhaps permanent residents in many countries.

Interesting numbers and somewhat surprises me that the median numbers were that high, especially the older numbers.
I should mention that my Mom grew up in a very poor part of London, England and was her personal anecdote. The point she was making was how many of the marriages ended up as shitty marriages due to the rushed nature of the marriages. This would have been the 1950's.

The pollution from natural gas is mostly leakage, especially at the well head. Being mostly methane, it is a potent green house gas. You also occasionally do get explosions from the leakage, though usually small and minor in the scheme of things.
The other potential problem is that due to the export market growing, the price of natural gas is likely to go up, perhaps quite a bit..

Throw in gas lighting and it has worked very well for the right. Here in Canada, the Conservatives did almost the best ever and had a 25% lead before Trump, all with a leader who specialized in being vindictive, petty and good at gas lighting. They only lost due to the collapse of the left, who practised the opposite of being vindictive and petty. And of course there's Trump in America who is very good at being vindictive and petty.

You need $6 and somewhere to keep them. The poorer you are, the harder it is to take advantage of things like buying in bulk or taking advantage of sales. Shit, my place is too small for a big freezer and that means that there are certain sales (meat) that I wish I could take more advantage off and there are smaller places where you have a little fridge, no freezer and little cupboard space.

Birth control and sex ed are part of it. I remember my Mom talking about when she was young, about 75 years back, half the marriages were due to pregnancy and a lot of them were shitty marriages. Still, being young and horny as well as married the average couple had a couple of kids by twenty. When I was young, if i brought a girl around home, my Mom swooped in and had her on the pill. She had access due to working for a Doctor.
Today, lots of young women know how to prevent pregnancy and want to have a life.

Should be "seldom pay for brake jobs", also wonder if there is some oil in the gears somewhere that should be changed once in a long while.
Brakes rot over time. Example my manual truck with 250,000 odd miles when I brought it. Front rotors were pitted, needed turned or replaced, I replaced. One caliper had a rotten seal along with one pad that was worn, rest were good, new caliper (should have done both) and new pads while in there. The front rubber lines, looked good but were rotten inside, replaced. The metal lines are looking rusty and I will change them at some point. Rear brakes, one pad disintegrating from age, replace all. Parking brake cables seized up on me after another 50,000 miles or so, replaced. Someone had already replaced the metal lines and likely the rubber one.
Most all these problems were age related, not wear and an electric vehicle will come upon similar issues, especially if you don't routinely flush the brake fluid, which sucks water out of the air causing corrosion. So even an electric vehicle should have the brake fluid flushed every couple of years and a thorough brake inspection, and perhaps a full brake job every decade.

Sometimes they do so they can claim legitimacy. Russia for example has regular elections.

Except the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a state socialist government, it's in the name. True that there was a fantasy of it leading to communism eventually and some of the people involved called themselves Communist, mostly due to Communism sounding good to peasants.

Well the Hague conventions did make targeting civilians illegal, which raises the question of whether everyone breaking the law makes a law mute. The problem with international law is that it is generally an agreement with little possibility of enforcement when it is broken, and currently these conventions are being broken in multiple wars including a couple where genocide is the goal and too many countries don't even follow their own laws, little well treaties.

The first Geneva Convention was ratified in 1864, by 12 nations and was about how the wounded and sick soldiers on the battle field were to be treated. These were expanded a few times before 1949 including how prisoners of war were to be treated. There was also the Hague Conventions which did deal with civilians and occupied territory from the early 20th Century, late 19th century which are the treaties that were used to prosecute the war crimes after WWII. Note this,

After World War II, the judges of the military tribunal of the Trial of German Major War Criminals at Nuremberg Trials found that by 1939, the rules laid down in the 1907 Hague Convention IV – Laws and Customs of War on Land were recognized by all civilized nations and were regarded as declaratory of the laws and customs of war. Under this post-war decision, a country did not have to have ratified the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare in order to be bound by them.[62] (Germany was in any case a signatory since 1909.)

Source, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... which cites, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt...

I'm still using the Suite, SeaMonkey, handles RSS fine, along with Usenet, email and with an add-on, even gopher