Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba: how did the US become such an awful place to live?

What do you call a country where nearly one in 10 adults have medical debts and a broken bone can boot you into bankruptcy? A country where a city of more than 160,000 residents recently had no safe drinking water for weeks? A country where life expectancy has dropped for the second year in a row and poor people sell their blood plasma in order to make ends meet? A country where the maternal mortality rate of black women in the capital is nearly twice as high as for women in Syria?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/21/us-un-living-standards-sustainable-development-goals