Your facts are not all right.
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Originally Posted by Why
America ranks 43rd, which is lower then the EU average for infant mortality rates. in fact we rank lower than Cuba and a number of ex-soviet states you so happily ripped on above(Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and more).
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Yes the US has a very high infant mortality rate. We rank around 29th in the world with
6.3 deaths/1,000 live births. Worse than Czech and Slovenia, but not worse than Slovakia and most other ex-Soviet states. Slightly worse than Cuba.
Slovakia 6.98 deaths/1,000 live births
Hungary 8.03 deaths/1,000 live births
Estonia 7.45 deaths/1,000 live births
Latvia 8.96 deaths/1,000 live births
Lithuania 6.57 deaths/1,000 live births
Romania
23.73 deaths/1,000 live births
The US is worse than most of the EU. What is interesting is that in 1960 we ranked 12th. What happened? Some believe it's related to the huge increase in cesarean sections performed in the US, but there doesn't seem to be enough data to prove that.
It's a problem, but not as huge of one as you make it out to be.
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Originally Posted by Why
next up... life expectancy. the united states, well they don't rank very highly on that scale either. see, i dunno about you guys, but i want to live to a ripe old age, and id like to know my children, friends, family and wife will live to be gray haired and happy as well.
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Life expectancy in America is 78.14.
Michael lives in Denmark I believe. Life expectancy there is
78.13 years.
The rate of the EU is 78.7 years. Not all that much different than the US. It's true that many European countries have a life expectancy a year or more than the US, but I would argue that is probably more due to DIET than health care.
BTW, Cuba is 77.27 years.
So living in the EU gets you an extra 6 months. Live in Cuba and you lose almost a year.
Those are the facts.