The incidence of maternal death in childbirth in the US has soared by 50 percent since 1990, according to an international study published Friday in the British medical journal Lancet.
The report found that, on average, 18.5 mothers died for every 100,000 live births in the US in 2013, more than double the maternal mortality rate in Saudi Arabia, at 7.0, and more than triple that in the United Kingdom, at 6.1.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/05/06/mate-m06.html
Way to go, America. We have some of the highest medical bills in the world, but some of the worst outcomes.
Why is that? I suspect it's because the new persons (corporations) care more about money than they care about real persons.
Maybe we should tell Big Med and Big Pharma to go to hell.
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