The opponents of the new national health insurance law, including the chronically lachrymose John Boehner, are fond of saying that "Obamacare" will destroy "the best health care system in the world." There are comparisons that show that in quite a few categories of health and health care, this nation is lagging behind.
Consider:
"Let’s be clear at the beginning that not every maternal death can be prevented. Still, almost all maternal deaths are preventable. The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (2000) set our national goal for a maternal death ratio to be no higher than 3.3 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2010. Unfortunately, we are far from achieving that goal—in fact, we are moving in the wrong direction.
Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon the official but unreliable number*). (2 Hill et al., 2007) In 1982, the U.S. ratio was 7.5 deaths per 100,000 births. In 2004, it was 13.2 deaths per 100,000. In 2005, the last year for which we have figures, the maternal death ratio was 15.1 deaths per 100,000 births. For African-American women, the ratio was an outrageous 34.5 deaths per 100,000 births. (Kung, Hoyert, Xu, & Murphy, 2008) In other words, for all U.S. women the maternal death ratio is almost 5 times as high as it should be, and for African-American women, it is more than 10 times what it should be."
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Perhaps I spelled it right after all !