No you haven't. You've guessed, you haven't really collected and run the data, or at least if you have you haven't posted the analysis. Not that I blame you, its probably to difficult to do. Its one thing if you have a research team and a large grant, something else if your posting on SI.
Americans overall die at a younger age, that the same as saying their life expectancy is lower. Its just rephrasing the same point which I've already replied to. Homicide is not a huge factor in overall deaths, but it still need to be adjusted for. Suicide is higher in some countries besides the US, and its lower in others. Pointing out some high countries doesn't amount for adjusting for that factor, let alone adjusting for all the others. Accidents are a major cause of death and you haven't provided any adjustment for that. Again given the context its not reasonable to demand that you do, and I'm not putting forth any such demand, but if it isn't done than the data doesn't prove anything.
Given that the roads are less crowded in general, the speed limits lower and the cars larger than in many countries and we have at least the same if not better safety features, I doubt seriously that the traffic fatality rates are much higher than other countries.
People in the US tend to drive more than people in most other countries. Their more likely to use a car to commute to work, more likely to drive for hours to get somewhere rather than take public transportation (in Europe or Japan train use is more common)
Certainly not the double or more that is seen in the differences in suicide rates.
Double in Japan, and maybe in one or two other small countries, your cherry picking your data. You haven't even shown that the average suicide rate in other developed countries is higher that in the US, let alone double the rate.
And, while obesity is an unquantified parameter, it also is unlikely to make a huge difference. Because many of the complications that crop up due to obesity are also ones that the US excels at in treating. So things like cardiovascular conditions, cancer and the other risk factors due to obesity tend to be exactly the ones that our medical system treats better than other countries.
Obesity is a large factor in deaths in the US so it can't just be ignored. And to the extent that your contention that our medical system is better at treating the complications from it is true, that is a point in favor of our medical system. It doesn't mean you can drop adjustment for obesity, it would mean that we have more difficulty because of it, but than we overcome it with better treatment.
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