Jake, it's hard to disagree that the article in question is both outdated and garbage--if you actually look at it, then look at worldwide murder rate statistics. Not just cherry-picking a few select countries.

We have better health care than Slovenia but a worse murder rate. (Theirs is 1.47 per 100,000; ours is almost 4x as high.) Of the approximately 110 countries on which recent data is available, over 70 have lower murder rates than the United States. Of the 37 with higher murder rates, 9 are former Soviet republics in the aftermath of the breakup of the USSR, and most of the rest are experiencing significant political turmoil of one sort or another, or have problems with narcoterrorism. Examples would be El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Mexico, Zimbabwe, and Uganda. Not likely shining examples of universal health care either.

So maybe we ought to worry about our murder rate, which is incredibly high among what one might call (in non-PC terminology) "the civilized world" as well as (or perhaps in conjunction with) our health care crisis.

Just goes to show the results of looking at "general propositions" without focusing on the specifics.