Hmm, lower incomes where health care and university is provided by the government, higher income where it is not.<p>And if you take the cost of health care and university out of the US statistics, do you think they would remain higher?<p>back of the envelope math says no:<p>Its less than 10 thousand dollars higher, US health care is estimated at 5k per person on average.  Given that these are household incomes youd have to multiply that by average family size, which is like 2.3 people<p>Its 2.3*5000 more expensive to have healthcare per family in the US<p>That already has wiped out the entirety of the 10k gap.<p>If you include free university it is even more one sided.