Lede of the Week: To Explain Longevity Gap, Look Past Health System

If you’re not rich and you get sick, in which industrialized country are you likely to get the best treatment?
The conventional answer to this question has been: anywhere but the United States. With its many uninsured citizens and its relatively low life expectancy, the United States has been relegated to the bottom of international health scorecards. - NY Science Times

The lede relates to nearly everyone that is reading it. The biggest issue of today is healthcare and controversial topics like this should be approach with that angle of writing --- refering to the people and having them think. It appealed to me because after I read the lede, I wondered what country would give the best treatment [I even guessed]. The lede makes a smooth transition to the nutgraf which lets the reader know excactly what the rest of the article is about. The nutgraf also had a bit of humor in it --- "anywhere but the United States."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/22tier.html?ref=science