apparently anyone with a source can add anything on here except me of course since has repeatedly deleted cited statements that i've added on this page you should take a statistics course because there is an objective means of ascertaining the income level at which heart disease cause more deaths than infectious disease it's quite simple you find out the number of deaths in each group and then compare the numbers while i don't know if the numbers to do that are available to perform such a comparison i do know that there is an objective scientific method for dealing with the issue there may be outliers as you've pointed out but the number afforded through the statistical method is still a firm cut off point and one supported by conventional social science techniques as you yourself have claimed there may be some agencies that have drawn dollar boundaries between industrial and developed countries but i don't know if they make sense they don't make sense because the cut off is arbitrary what is poverty what is wealth these are all normative concepts with no rigid definitions using a malleable definition to harangue a definition is just crass beyond belief pick a number and defend it don't take me for a ride your suggestion gives me pause but it's acceptable because i have no desire of going on and on with editors who are intent on foisting opinions on this article it does have some issues namely the united states does have publicly funded health care it does not have so called universal health care if that's corrected though i'll accept it