A new UN report effectively issues yet another stinging indictment of America's crumbling health care system.
This new report discloses that the rate of women dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth is far worse in the U.S. than in Europe. While 1 in 4,800 women in the U.S. die from these causes, the rate is only 1 in 47,600 in Ireland - meaning the maternal death rate is almost 10 times as high in the U.S. as in Ireland. Even in war-torn Bosnia, one of Europe's poorest countries, the rate is only 1 in 29,000.
Yet Americans still probably pay more for health care than any other country. We wonder what excuses are going to be evoked this time for making people pay so much for such lousy health care.
(Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1339620220071013?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews)
Monday, October 15, 2007
America's maternal death rate far worse than Europe's
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Big surprise.
ReplyDeleteAfghanistan though is still one of the worst...courtesy of the Taliban being allowed to retake power. (Weren't we supposed to have ousted them six years ago?)