Maybe not going bankrupt because of medical expenses as the only first world country with universal healthcare? When it comes to the hierarchy of needs, not dying because of unaffordable or unavailable healthcare I’m sure ranks near the top.

There is no objective measure where the median American is better off than the median European.

I’m saying this as a born and bread American citizen who is fortunate enough to be on the better side of the economic divide.

The parent was asking how one might change the survey, not the US.