[chrischapman]

Upvote for 'Oh Goodie' and the humour in general. But had to reflect on the sad reality of the following being in green!

> spend 99.58% less money on health care

That is apparently a 'benefit' of living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When compared to:

> die 23.88 years sooner

perhaps the health care statistic should have been in red?

[DangitBobby]

This criticism doesn't make sense. You could argue that the expense is a contributing factor to why the US' healthcare is better, and if it had a single category that said "healthcare is 90% better in other country because it costs less" then that would be misleading somehow. But that's not at all what happened. They gave two metrics: comparative life expectancy and comparative healthcare expense. The metric where your country fares better is red, the one where it fares worse is green. You cannot argue that lower cost isn't purely better if you are solely examining that single metric. Splitting it into separate metrics allows you to do so.

Your backlash against the representation says more about your beliefs than it does about the site.

[sigmaprimus]

That was somewhat of an ad hominem attack, I believe the point that was being made is that Red and Green have certain connotations, generally Red = Bad, Stop, Danger and Green = Good, Go, Safe. I don't think it has anything to do with ones beliefs and though it may indicate an opinion, there is no value in criticizing someone for having a different opinion when they provide it in the appropriate space such as a comments' forum.